First ReadingActs 10:34a, 37-43
From the Acts of the Apostles
34Peter opened his mouth and said,“Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism; verses 35–36 are not read37you yourselves know what happened,which was proclaimed throughout all Judea,beginning from Galilee,after the baptism which John preached;38how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power,who went about doing good and healing allwho were oppressed by the devil,for God was with him.39We are witnesses of everything he did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem;whom they also killed, hanging him on a tree.40God raised him up the third dayand gave him to be revealed,41not to all the people,but to witnesses who were chosen before by God,to us, who ateand drank with him after he rose from the dead.42He commanded us to preach to the peopleand to testify that this is hewho is appointed by God as the Judge of the living and the dead.43All the prophets testify about him,that through his name everyonewho believes in him will receive remission of sins.”