Reading for May 1st

Read Acts 10.1-8
In 10.1-11.18: God gives repentance to the gentiles.
In verse 1: Ceasarea, a coastal city built by Herod the Great as a Roman port, is a thoroughfare in Acts (8.40; 9.30; 12.19; 18.22; 21.8, 16; 23.23, 33; 25.1, 4, 6, 13).
A centurion led 100 soldiers within a cohort of about 600.
See also Jesus and the centurion in Lk 7.1-10.
In verse 2: being devout (10.7; see also Lk 2.25; Acts 2.5; 8.2; 22.12), fearing Good (10.22, 35; 13.26; see also 13.43, 50; 16.14; 17.4, 17; 18.7), giving alms (9.36), and praying  (2.42-46) all marked him as righteous according to the law, although he was a gentile.
In verses 3-4: Three o'clock was the ninth hour of the day, the hour of prayer (3.1).
Like Saul and Ananias (9.3, 10), Peter and Cornelius have double vision of a heavenly messenger appearing in two places (10.3, 11-13).
The centurion calls the angel Lord, addressing an authority (compare "the Lord Jesus" in 9.17).
In verses 5-6: The name Simon Peter (Lk 5.8; 6.14), and the place are again specific ( see 9.11).
Whether the house of the tanner could ever have been anything but ritually unclean does not seem to be a problem.
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