Acts 11:4

4 incipiens autem Petrus exponebat illis ordinem dicens

Acts 11:4 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 11:4

But Peter rehearsed the matter from the beginning
Of the vision at Joppa;

and expounded it by order unto them;
or related every particular, in a very methodical and orderly manner: he did not insist upon his authority as an apostle, and much less pretended to a primacy to the rest of the apostles; but submitted to have his case heard, examined, and judged of by the body of the brethren.

Acts 11:4 In-Context

2 cum ascendisset autem Petrus in Hierosolymam disceptabant adversus illum qui erant ex circumcisione
3 dicentes quare introisti ad viros praeputium habentes et manducasti cum illis
4 incipiens autem Petrus exponebat illis ordinem dicens
5 ego eram in civitate Ioppe orans et vidi in excessu mentis visionem descendens vas quoddam velut linteum magnum quattuor initiis submitti de caelo et venit usque ad me
6 in quod intuens considerabam et vidi quadrupedia terrae et bestias et reptilia et volatilia caeli
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