32 Therefore send to Joppa and summon Simon who is also called Peter. This man is staying as a guest in the house of Simon, a tanner,[a] by the sea. 33 Therefore I sent for you at once, and you were kind enough to come.[b] So now we all are present before God to hear all the things that have been commanded to you by the Lord.”

34 So Peter opened his[c] mouth and[d] said, “In truth I understand that God is not one who shows partiality,

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 10:32 Or “of Simon Berseus”; most modern English versions treat the word as Simon’s profession (“Simon the tanner”), but the word may actually be a surname (“Simon Berseus” or “Simon Tanner”)
  2. Acts 10:33 Literally “have done rightly coming”
  3. Acts 10:34 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
  4. Acts 10:34 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“opened”) has been translated as a finite verb