Commentaries on Acts 10:45

John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

And they of the circumcision which believed,.... Or "of the Jews that believed", as the Ethiopic version renders it; the circumcised Jews who believed in Jesus Christ: were astonished, as many as came with Peter; who were six brethren, as appears from Acts 11:12 these were amazed, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out of the gift of the Holy Ghost; which they before thought was...

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

It is a turn very new and remarkable which the story of this chapter gives to the Acts of the apostles; hitherto, both at Jerusalem and every where else where the ministers of Christ came, they preached the gospel only to the Jews, or those Greeks that were circumcised and proselyted to the Jews' religion; but now, "Lo, we turn to the Gentiles;" and to them the door of faith is here opened: good...