338 (bonus) Answer: (a) All people of faith, Jews and Gentiles, are made clean before God
Read Peter’s vision (Acts 10:9-16) Read where Peter expresses his understanding (Acts 10:28) Read where Peter declares the truth of God (Acts 10:34-35) Note: Peter came to realize, through the Holy Spirit, that God looks at the heart and calls people of faith to be His children without regard to outward appearances or culture
Note: in the People’s Bible Commentary: Acts, page 113, Richard D. Balge tells his readers, “What Jesus was teaching Peter about food was going to apply to people. From the Jewish point of view, the messengers who were coming to Joppa and the centurion who had sent them were unclean, for they were Gentiles, not living according to the ceremonial laws of Israel. But if Jesus himself accepted them by declaring them clean, then they were clean. Neither Peter nor anyone else was to regard them as unclean.”