“Doubting” in Acts 10:20? 91 11:2)38. The second and third narrations echo selective aspects of the vi- sion and subsequent events in Joppa and Peter’s experience in Caesarea. Both stories mention that the spirit, in Joppa, tells Peter to accompany Cornelius’ servants; however, Peter’s interpretation of the spirit’s com- mand changes with the story’s progression. Specifically, he interprets the command differently at progressive stages in his own narrative. In Caesarea, Peter tells Cornelius that he has come ἀναντιρρήτως (“without protest”, 10:29). Later, in Jerusalem, Peter justifies his decision to meet with Cornelius by informing his fellow disciples that the spirit instructed him to go with the Caesarean men μηδὲν διακρίναντα (“discriminating nothing”, 11:12). All three of these varying references to Peter’s compliance with the spirit’s command (μηδὲν διακρινόμενος, 10:20; ἀναντιρρήτως, 10:29; μηδὲν διακρίναντα, 11:12) mark, and recall, the narrative transition between the first two geographical stages of the evolving story (that is, the movement from Joppa to Caesarea). Only the second and third references, however, integrate incrementally more information into the narrative and, therewith, show Peter’s evolving understanding of the spirit’s original command during his vision in Joppa. In the first retelling of the Joppa incident (at Caesarea), the adverb ἀναντιρρήτως (10:29) directly corresponds to the spirit’s order to follow Cornelius’ servants μηδὲν διακρινόμενος (10:20); that is, this adverb echoes Peter’s non-pro- testing attitude in response to the command. In contrast, the phrase μηδὲν διακρίναντα (11:12), located within the second retelling (at Jerusalem), corresponds to the events at Caesarea – particularly Peter’s observation: because both Gentile and Jewish believers received the spirit, thereby demonstrating God’s non-discriminatory action, his visit with Gentile believers in Caesarea could not be unlawful (cf. 10:28.47). Significantly, neither reiteration of the Joppa event (at Caesarea or at Jerusalem) repeats the intrapersonal responses Peter experiences during the vision itself (i.e., his “confusion” and “pondering”). The narrative con- text suggests strongly that the adverb ἀναντιρρήτως (10:29) is the inter- pretive key for the phrase μηδὲν διακρινόμενος (10:20)39: what “the voice” tells Peter in Joppa (to accompany the visitors “contesting nothing”), Peter himself identifies in Caesarea as going “without protest”. Consequently, the verbs διαπόρεω (10:17) and διενθυμέομαι (10:19) are not interpretive keys for the phrase μηδὲν διακρινόμενος; rather, they echo Peter’s reac- tion to an event that has already been reported, i.e., his vision in Joppa. Cf. Tannehill (Narrative Unity 124) about the significance of geographical locations 38 in Acts that “create links in narrative lines that will be broken by other material.” Cf. also Bruce, Acts 259; Fitzmyer, Acts 461; Johnson, Acts 190. 39