24And the morrow after they entered into Caesarea. And Cornelius waited for them, and had called together his kinsmen and near friends.
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But Philip was found at Azotus: and passing through he preached in all the cities, till he came to Caesarea.
And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities: …
In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall ye call every man his neighbour under the vine and under the fig tree.
And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-33)We have here the meeting between Peter the apostle, and Cornelius the centurion. Though Paul was designed to be the apostle of the Gentiles, and to gather in the harvest among them, and Peter to be the apostle of the circumcision, yet it is ordered that Peter shall break the ice, and reap the first-fruits of the Gentiles, that the believing Jews, who retained too much of the old leaven of ill-will…
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