9On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour:
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And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the LORD, and that swear by Malcham;
Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.
And when he had declared all these things unto them, he sent them to Joppa. …
And when he had sent them away, he departed into a mountain to pray.
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-18)Cornelius had received positive orders from heaven to send for Peter, whom otherwise he had not heard of, or at least not heeded; but here is another difficulty that lies in the way of bringing them together—the question is whether Peter will come to Cornelius when he is sent for; not as if he thought it below him to come at a beck, or as if he were afraid to preach his doctrine to a polite man as…
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