Acts 2:39

the promise is unto you, and to your children Just as "to Abraham and his seedwere the promises made" (Galatians 3:16), so is it to be under the new covenant.

all that are afar off Peter knew from the first, we see, that the Gentiles were to be admitted to the same privileges as Israel. But Christ's commission said they were to preach firstin Jerusalem and in Judæa. Peter needed the vision of the great sheet let down from heaven to tell him whenGod's time was come for the extension of the work; and though in his dream the natural prejudice of his race was asserted, yet when he awoke he went "without gainsaying as soon as he was sent for" (Acts 10:29), as he says to Cornelius. For Christ's words had been "Go, teach all nations."

shall call Better, shall call unto him. The verb is a compound, not the simple verb.