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Commentaries on Acts 11:15

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John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

And as I began to speak,...., That is, whilst he was speaking; the word "begin" with Luke, both, in his Gospel and in this history, is used not to denote the time or order of any action, but the thing itself; as in Lu 4:21 for otherwise it was towards the close, and not at the beginning of his discourse, that what follows happened: the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning; of our...

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

In this chapter we have, I. Peter's necessary vindication of what he did in receiving Cornelius and his friends into the church, from the censure he lay under for it among the brethren, and their acquiescence in it, ver. 1-18. II. The good success of the gospel at Antioch, and the parts adjacent, ver. 19-21. III. The carrying on of the good work that was begun at Antioch, by the ministry of...