God is simply, beautifully interrupting conventional and normal structures of relating by mapping God’s own relational logic across their bodies. Peter is now in the strange position of listening where he would have normally been speaking of the directing of the Lord. Rather than reciting the words of angels given to him, Peter hears of divine visitation with another, a Gentile no less. The world is turning over, and Peter turns with it. He invites Gentiles into the house that is not his own; the house belongs to Simon the Tanner. Both Peter and these sent from Cornelius are guests in the
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