Acts 10:45 BSB — MannaFest

Acts 10:45

All the circumcised believers who had accompanied Peter were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles.

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Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And they of the circumcision that believed were amazed, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Spirit.

KJV

And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.

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Commentary

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Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

And they of the circumcision - Who had been Jews. Were astonished - Were amazed that Gentiles should be admitted to the same favor as themselves.

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

It is not unlikely that some Gentiles might before now have stepped into a synagogue of the Jews, and heard the gospel preached; but the gospel was never yet designedly preached to the Gentiles, nor any of them baptized--Cornelius was the first; and here we have, I. An account given us of this Cornelius, who and what he was, who was the first-born of the Gentiles to Christ.

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Charlie Shamp

Speaking in Tongues: The Definitive Evidence of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit (2024)

This passage is crucial for several reasons. Firstly, it demonstrates that the experience of speaking in tongues is not limited to the Jewish believers of Pentecost but extends to Gentiles as well.

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Original language & word study

21 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
ἐξέστησαν	exestēsan	were amazed	G1839 →
οἱ	hoi	the	G3588 →
ἐκ	ek	from	G1537 →
περιτομῆς	peritomēs	[the] circumcision	G4061 →
πιστοὶ	pistoi	believers	G4103 →
ὅσοι	hosoi	as many as	G3745 →
συνῆλθαν	sunēlthan	had come with	G4905 →
τῷ	tō	<the>	G3588 →
Πέτρῳ,	Petrō	Peter,	G4074 →
ὅτι	hoti	that	G3754 →
καὶ	kai	even	G2532 →
ἐπὶ	epi	upon	G1909 →
τὰ	ta	the	G3588 →
ἔθνη	ethnē	Gentiles	G1484 →
ἡ	hē	the	G3588 →
δωρεὰ	dōrea	gift	G1431 →
τοῦ	tou	of the	G3588 →
ἁγίου	hagiou	Holy	G40 →
πνεύματος	pneumatos	Spirit	G4151 →
ἐκκέχυται·	ekkechutai	has been poured out;	G1632 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Acts 2:38
Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
leads to
- Acts 22:16
  And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and wash your sins away, calling on His name.’
- Mark 16:16
  Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
- Acts 8:12
  But when they believed Philip as he preached the gospel of the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.
- Luke 24:47
  and in His name repentance and forgiveness of sins will be proclaimed to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem.
- Acts 3:19
  Repent, then, and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away,
Through
Ephesians 2:11
Therefore remember that formerly you who are Gentiles in the flesh and called uncircumcised by the so-called circumcision (that done in the body by human hands)—
leads to
- Colossians 2:11
  In Him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of your sinful nature, with the circumcision performed by Christ and not by human hands.
- Colossians 2:13
  When you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our trespasses,
- Colossians 3:11
  Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free, but Christ is all and is in all.