Acts 10:40-42
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
40 This man God raised [on] the third day and granted that he be visible, 41 not to all the people, but to us, the witnesses chosen by God in advance, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.(A) 42 He commissioned us(B) to preach to the people and testify that he is the one appointed by God as judge of the living and the dead.[a]
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- 10:42 As judge of the living and the dead: the apostolic preaching to the Jews appealed to their messianic hope, while the preaching to Gentiles stressed the coming divine judgment; cf. 1 Thes 1:10.
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