27And as he talked with him, he went in, and found many that were come together.
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Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.
Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord,
And the morrow after they entered into Caesarea. And Cornelius waited for them, and had called together his kinsmen and near friends.
For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries.
And when they were come, and had gathered the church together, they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how he had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles.
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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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