Tag: Caesarea
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Friends, Romans, Brothers: Lend me your ears
An angel of the Lord summoned Jews from Joppa and Romans from Caesarea to hear Peter preach the Gospel for all. Acts 10: of Peter and the Romans in Caesarea In case you missed it, Peter’s Roman Centurion host has just bowed down to him when the Apostle approached the group of believers at his…
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Caesar’s Palace East welcomes PETRUS
Peter in Roman Sin City A background behind Caesar’s Palace in Judea Initially, a few decades before.. Caesarea is sixty some miles northwest of Jerusalem. Herod had expanded it to become one of the most important cities in the Roman Empire, which would later serve Rome as Judea’s capital. (Yes, it would later have a…
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The Gospel of an Angel to Cornelius
ACTS 10 – of Cornelius – a devout Roman Centurion Now there was a man in Caesarea named Cornelius, a centurion of what was called the Italian [~600 man] cohort, a devout man and one who feared God with all his household, and made many charitable contributions to the Jewish people and prayed to God continually. Who do we see here? A Roman…
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