<p>10:42 <em>And he ordered us to preach to the people</em>- &quot;Ordered&quot; would be better translated 'commanded'. The reference is likely to the great commission. But Peter therefore misunderstood that as being a command to preach &quot;to the people&quot;, i.e. the Jewish people. The great commission had commanded the disciples to preach; the fact Peter adds &quot;to the people&quot; suggests he is adding his interpretation to the Lord's actual words, until he assumes that that interpretation was part and parcel of the Lord's own words. Adam made the same mistake in Gen. 3:3, and all Bible readers and students are inclined to. Peter seems to be saying that the Lord had commanded him to preach to the people of Israel, but that he had been led to now preach to Gentile Cornelius. But actually Peter had yet to join the dots, and realize that actually the requirement to share the Gospel with the Gentiles had been hinted at throughout the Old Testament and was to be found plainly in the actual teaching of the Lord Jesus. It wasn't a change of plan by the Lord at the time of Cornelius; rather was it Peter and the other disciples being so slow to understand the basic meaning of simple words, just as they had failed to accept the Lord's clear predictions of His own death and resurrection.</p><p><i>And to testify that this is he who is ordained by God<em>-</em></i> Note the legal language. It's as if we have been given a subpoena; we have to testify that we have met Him. And the world is our judge. It is our duty to persuade them, sceptical as they are, of the utter truth of our case, and that life and death eternal depend upon judging it rightly. But the metaphor has a double twist; we are on trial, but we are testifying that actually this risen Jesus is &quot;the judge of the living and the dead&quot;.</p><p><em>To be the judge of the living and the dead</em>- This could mean that when He returns, the Lord Jesus will raise the responsible dead and judge them, along with &quot;the living&quot; who are alive at the time of His return. Or it could be saying that He is right now the judge of all living, and also of all who have died, seeing He has their records and has already formulated His judgment of them. This latter option would make better sense of the present tense used- He <em>is</em> the judge, rather than 'He shall be one day the judge...'.</p>