44While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word.
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And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning.
And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.
And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;
And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.
And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 44-48)We have here the issue and effect of Peter’s sermon to Cornelius and his friends. He did not labour in vain among them, but they were all brought home to Christ. Here we have, I. God’s owning Peter’s word, by conferring the Holy Ghost upon the hearers of it, and immediately upon the hearing of it (Acts 10:44): While Peter was yet speaking these words , and perhaps designed to say more, he was happ…
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