'So get up and go downstairs. Do not hesitate to go with them, for I have sent them.'—the Spirit's instruction is clear and urgent: no hesitation. The divine ownership ('I have sent them') validates these Gentile messengers as instruments of divine purpose. Peter must act on faith that the pagan soldiers carry divine authorization. 'Do not hesitate' (mēdēn diakrinō, 'do not distinguish/judge') echoes the prior theme: do not call unclean what God has made clean.

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