Acts 11:12

12 The Holy Spirit told me not to let anything keep me from going with them. These six brothers here went with me. We entered the man's house.

Acts 11:12 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 11:12

And the Spirit bade me go with them, nothing doubting
(See Gill on Acts 10:20),

moreover, these six brethren accompanied me;
it seems by this, that the six brethren that went along with Peter from Joppa to Caesarea, came also with him from thence to Jerusalem, and were now present, whom he points to; so that it looks as if Peter was aware, that he should be called to an account for his conduct, when he should come to Jerusalem; and therefore brought these six brethren with him, to be witnesses for him, of what they had seen and heard, which was a very wise and prudential step:

and we entered into the man's house;
the house of Cornelius, for entering into whose house they were contending with him, and where he entered not alone, but the six brethren with him; the Ethiopic version wrongly reads "three".

Acts 11:12 In-Context

10 This happened three times. Then the sheet was pulled up into heaven.
11 "Just then three men stopped at the house where I was staying. They had been sent to me from Caesarea.
12 The Holy Spirit told me not to let anything keep me from going with them. These six brothers here went with me. We entered the man's house.
13 He told us how he had seen an angel appear in his house. The angel said, 'Send to Joppa for Simon Peter.
14 He has a message to bring to you. You and your whole family will be saved through it.'
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