3He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him, Cornelius.
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And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God; …
Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour.
But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth, and said,
And there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias; and to him said the Lord in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I am here, Lord.
And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting until this hour; and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and, behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)The bringing of the gospel to the Gentiles, and the bringing of those who had been strangers and foreigners to be fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God, were such a mystery to the apostles themselves, and such a surprise ( Eph. 3:3 , 6 ), that it concerns us carefully to observe all the circumstances of the beginning of this great work, this part of the mystery of godliness—…
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