Peter

Peter rises to deliver the decisive speech of the council, drawing on his own experience with Cornelius to argue that God has already settled this question by giving the Holy Spirit to Gentiles without circumcision.

Peter stands up before the entire crowd and delivers an authoritative, unrehearsed address — a stunning transformation from the man who denied knowing Jesus to a servant girl just weeks before.

Peter stops, makes deliberate eye contact with the beggar, and commands him to walk in Jesus' name — then physically lifts him up, setting the miracle in motion.

Peter is mid-sermon when the authorities arrive to arrest him — the same fisherman who denied Jesus three times is now so bold that the religious establishment feels threatened enough to take him into custody.

Peter confronts Ananias directly, identifying the lie not as theft from the community but as a lie to the Holy Spirit — and Ananias collapses dead before Peter finishes speaking.

Peter is sent from Jerusalem to Samaria as an apostolic representative — his presence validates what God is doing among a people his culture had long excluded, and he becomes the instrument through which the Spirit is given.

Peter is now traveling the region visiting believers and arrives in Lydda, where he encounters a paralyzed man and speaks a simple healing command in Jesus's name.