Both cultures were taught to avoid the other, to not trust the other. Jews and Palestinians, Straights and Gays, westerners and middle easterners, rich and poor, the list could go on and on. We live in a point in time where our very cultures teach us to avoid certain peoples with no regard to the specific individuals in that culture. “Peter saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners. (He couldn’t understand how God would ask him to do something he had been taught from childhood not to do.)