Teks -- Acts 10:21 (NET)

10:21 So Peter went down to the men and said, “Here I am, the person you’re looking for. Why have you come?”

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Robertson: Act 10:21 - Cause

Cause ( aitia ).

Or reason. Common in this sense. See note on Mat 19:3.

JFB: Act 10:17-24 - while Peter doubted . . . what this should mean, behold, the three men . . . stood before the gate . . . and asked

"were inquiring," that is, in the act of doing so. The preparations here made--of Peter for his Gentile visitors, as of Cornelius for him--are devoutly to be noted. But besides this, at the same moment, "the Spirit" expressly informs him that three men were inquiring for him, and bids him unhesitatingly go with them, as sent by Him.

JFB: Act 10:21 - I am he whom ye seek

This seems to have been said without any communication being made to Peter regarding the men or their errand.

Clarke: Act 10:21 - Which were sent unto him from Cornelius

Which were sent unto him from Cornelius - This clause is wanting in almost every MS. of worth, and in almost all the versions

Clarke: Act 10:21 - Behold, I am he whom ye seek

Behold, I am he whom ye seek - A sudden, unexpected speech, like the address of Aeneas to Dido; when the cloud in which he was involved suddenly dissipated, and he appeared with the exclamation

- coram, quem quaeritis, adsum !

Aen. lib. i. 595

What is the cause therefore ye are come? - He still did not know the full import of the vision; but being informed by the Holy Spirit that three men were seeking him, and that he should go with them, without scruple, he instantly obeyed; and finding them at the door, desired to know why they sought him.

Calvin: Act 10:21 - Behold, I am he whom ye seek

21.Behold, I am he whom ye seek Luke declareth now how ready Peter was to obey; secondly, that he understood at length, by the messengers, to what end the vision was showed unto him. For he heareth that he is called by Cornelius, a man that is a Gentile, whom he would have counted profane, and unworthy of his company, unless his judgment had been corrected with this voice, “That which God calleth pure, judge not thou to be common.” This is to be wise indeed, when as abandoning all vain confidence, and correcting our stubbornness, the authority of God doth so pull us unto it, and doth so possess our minds, that we count nothing right but that which it prescribeth.

TSK: Act 10:21 - Behold // what

Behold : Joh 1:38, Joh 1:39, Joh 18:4-8

what : Act 10:29; Mar 10:51

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Poole: Act 10:21

Peter being in no small consternation, and not perfectly knowing whither all this tended, makes the more exact inquiry.

Gill: Act 10:21 - Then Peter went down to the men // which were sent unto him from Cornelius // and said, behold, I am he whom ye seek // what is the cause wherefore ye are come

Then Peter went down to the men,.... The Ethiopic version adds, "from the third floor"; to the place where the men were: the following clause,

which were sent unto him from Cornelius, is not in Beza's most ancient copy, nor in the Alexandrian copy, nor in the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions:

and said, behold, I am he whom ye seek; without being called by any of the family he came down, and without being informed in that way who the men were inquiring for; it being suggested to him by the Spirit of God, he declared himself to be the person they were seeking after: and put this question to them,

what is the cause wherefore ye are come? for that was not intimated to him by the Spirit; it was only told him there were three men seeking him, and he was bid to go with them, without any scruple or hesitation; but what they came for, or he was to go with them about, was not suggested.