As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as on us at the beginning.
We Gentiles sit in darkness until the gospel reaches us, and that is cause for joy. Yet here the Jerusalem church hears this news with shock, as though they had not been commanded to preach to every creature. Pride and bigotry hold fast against the clearest discoveries of divine truth.
AI summary
Commenting on Acts 11:1-18
Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said,.... Just before his ascension, Act 1:5. John indeed baptized with water, but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost; as they were on the day of Pentecost, and as now Cornelius and his family were; and since they had the greater baptism, the baptism of the Spirit, the lesser baptism of water could not be denied them.
Verse 15. And as I began to speak. Or, when I was speaking. The Holy Ghost, etc. (d) "fell on them"