Acts 10:26

26 But Peter helped him up, saying, "Get up! I myself am also a man!"

Acts 10:26 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 10:26

But Peter took him up
As he lay at his feet, and lifted him up and set him on his legs:

saying, stand up;
and continue in this posture:

I myself also am a man;
a mortal man, a man of like passions with others, no better than others by nature: and it was by grace, and not any merit of his own, that he was a believer in Christ, and an apostle of his; and therefore he chose not to have any distinguishing homage and respect paid to him, and especially in any excessive and extravagant way; which though not designed, might carry in it a suggestion, as if he was more than a man.

Acts 10:26 In-Context

24 And on the next day he entered into Caesarea.

25 So it happened that when Peter entered, Cornelius met him, fell at [his] feet, [and] worshiped [him].

26 But Peter helped him up, saying, "Get up! I myself am also a man!"

27 And [as he] conversed with him, he went in and found many [people] gathered.

28 And he said to them, "You know that it is forbidden for a Jewish man to associate with or to approach a foreigner. And to me God has shown [that] I should call no man common or unclean.