Acts 10:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Then called he them in, and lodged them. And on the morrow Peter went away with them, and certain brethren from Joppa accompanied him.

Then called he them in, and lodged them - thus anticipating to some extent that fellowship with the Gentiles which he was so soon formally to inaugurate, after it should be divinely sealed.

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And on the morrow Peter. It should be 'he,' the name being a later addition, perhaps as a connecting word.

Went away with them, and certain brethren from Joppa accompanied him. These were six in number, as we learn from himself (Acts 11:12), and they were taken in order to witness what Peter was now prepared to believe would be pregnant with great consequences.

Acts 10:23

23 Then called he them in, and lodged them. And on the morrow Peter went away with them, and certain brethren from Joppa accompanied him.