Atos 10:26

26 Mas Pedro o fez levantar-se, dizendo: “Levante-se, eu sou homem como você”.

Atos 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.

Atos 10:26 In-Context

24 No outro dia chegaram a Cesareia. Cornélio os esperava com seus parentes e amigos mais íntimos que tinha convidado.

25 Quando Pedro ia entrando na casa, Cornélio dirigiu-se a ele e prostrou-se aos seus pés, adorando-o.

26 Mas Pedro o fez levantar-se, dizendo: “Levante-se, eu sou homem como você”.

27 Conversando com ele, Pedro entrou e encontrou ali reunidas muitas pessoas

28 e lhes disse: “Vocês sabem muito bem que é contra a nossa lei um judeu associar-se a um gentio ou mesmo visitá-lo. Mas Deus me mostrou que eu não deveria chamar impuro ou imundo a homem nenhum.