ACTS 10:45 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.”
The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles.—the Jewish believers' astonishment (existēmi, 'were shocked') mirrors Peter's own surprise at the sheet-vision. The phrase 'even on the Gentiles' (kai epi ta ethnē) emphasizes the boundary-crossing: Gentiles receive the very 'gift of the Holy Spirit' that came at Pentecost. There is no distinction, no lower tier of grace.
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