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Acts 11:12

in Acts 11

The Spirit told me to accompany them without hesitation. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the man’s home.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the Spirit bade me go with them, making no distinction. And these six brethren also accompanied me; and we entered into the man’s house:

KJV

And the spirit bade me go with them, nothing doubting. Moreover these six brethren accompanied me, and we entered into the man’s house:

This verse in Acts 11

Commentary

10 notes on this verse

A commentator

Theophylact of Ohrid

Commentary on Acts · Written before 1107.

He could have said nothing that would have revealed his humility more than his appeal to the testimony of the brethren. He does not speak of what the Angel said to Cornelius: "your prayers and your alms" (Acts 10:14), nor does he recount the righteousness …

This site's exposition

three men sent to me

on Acts 11:11-14

Just then three men sent from Caesarea stopped at the house where Peter was staying, the vision's meaning arriving in the same hour. Six brothers went with him, witnesses Peter now needs before the church.

This site's exposition

The Spirit told me to accompany them

The phrase without hesitation renders a verb from the same root as took issue in verse 2. The Spirit told Peter to go making no distinction, while his critics made one. At 15:9 Peter says God made no distinction either.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers3 voices

A commentator

Oecumenius

Commentary on Acts · Written before 550.

proposed

Peter showed in his defense that he had by no means been the cause, but God everywhere. For he said, he himself set me in the excess of mind, he himself pointed out the sheet, and I indeed even contradicted; again the same he himself …

A commentator

John Chrysostom

Homily on Acts 24 · Written before 407.

proposed

"And, behold - this too was part of his defence - three men stood at the house in which I was, sent to me from Caesarea. And the Spirit bade me go with them, nothing doubting." Do you mark that it is to the Spirit the enacting of laws belongs! "And these also accompanied me" - nothing can be more lowly, when he alleges the brethren for witnesses! - "these six men, and we entered into the man's house."

A commentator

John Chrysostom

Homily on Acts 24 · Written before 407.

proposed

"And the Spirit bade me go with them, nothing doubting." Do you mark that it is to the Spirit the enacting of laws belongs!

The Medieval Church1 voice

A commentator

Bede

Commentary on Acts · Written before 735.

proposed

But these six brothers also came with me. Beautifully, the testimony of the seven-fold number of brothers is the outpouring of the sevenfold grace of the Holy Spirit. Elsewhere. Because the world was formed in six days, the works are shown to be complete by …

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

He did not act separately, but with advice; not rashly, but upon due deliberation. (4.) That Cornelius had a vision too, by which he was directed to send for Peter (

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2 more voices on this verse

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And the Spirit bade me go with them, nothing doubting,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

These six brethren - Probably pointing to them, being present, as proper persons to confirm the truth of what he was delivering.

The words behind it

25 Greek words

Every Greek word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Romans 3:22

    And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction,

    it leads to

    • Romans 10:12

      For there is no difference between Jew and Greek: The same Lord is Lord of all, and gives richly to all who call on Him,

    • Galatians 3:28

      There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

    • Romans 8:1

      Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

    • Galatians 2:16

      know that a man is not justified by works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in…

    • Romans 5:1–11

      Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

  • Through

    2 Thessalonians 2:2

    not to be easily disconcerted or alarmed by any spirit or message or letter seeming to be from us, alleging that the Day of the Lord has already come.

    it leads to

    • 1 John 4:1–2

      Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.

    • Mark 13:7

      When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed. These things must happen, but the end is still to come.

    • Matthew 24:4–6

      Jesus answered, “See to it that no one deceives you.

Where this verse is studied

About Acts

The Pentecost, El Greco, about 1600, Museo del Prado. Public domain.
The Pentecost, El Greco, about 1600, Museo del Prado. Public domain.
This page draws on 11 works. Open the list of works

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on Acts; Bede, Commentary on Acts; J. A. Alexander, The Acts of the Apostles Explained; John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Acts of the Apostles; John Chrysostom, Homily on Acts 24; John Gill, Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible; Oecumenius, Commentary on Acts; R. J. Knowling, The Acts of the Apostles, Expositor's Greek Testament and Theophylact of Ohrid, Commentary on Acts.