# Acts 10:34

> Then Peter began to speak: “I now truly understand that God does not show favoritism,

— Acts 10:34, Berean Standard Bible

## On the map

- **Caesarea** (Judea · today Caesarea Maritima) — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/caesarea

## When

- c. AD 40-44 (counted from the text)
- Date source: Acts 11:28 announces the famine of Claudius's reign, which Tacitus (Annals XII.43) and Josephus (Antiquities XX.2) put in AD 46-48.

## Who ruled

- **Caligula**, emperor of Rome, AD 37-41 · Source: Suetonius, Caligula; Josephus, Antiquities XVIII-XIX
- **Claudius**, emperor of Rome, AD 41-54 · Source: Suetonius, Claudius; Tacitus, Annals XI-XII
- **Herod Agrippa I**, king of Judea, AD 41-44 · Source: Josephus, Antiquities XVIII.6-XIX.8, which dates his death to AD 44

## What happened

- **Cornelius receives the Spirit** (AD 40)
  A Roman officer and his household receive the Spirit before any Jewish rite. It is the decision the church spends the next chapters trying to understand.

## See also

- Romans 2:11 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/romans/2/11
- 2 Chronicles 19:7 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/2-chronicles/19/7
- Deuteronomy 10:17 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/deuteronomy/10/17
- Job 34:19 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/34/19
- Colossians 3:25 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/colossians/3/25
- Luke 20:21 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/luke/20/21
- Ephesians 6:9 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/ephesians/6/9
- 1 Peter 1:17 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/1-peter/1/17

Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0.

## This document

- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/10/34
- Whole chapter: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/10
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).