ACTS 10:48 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then prayed they him to tarry certain days.”
Peter's presence among them signals the complete abolition of the purity barrier; Jews and Gentiles now share food, space, and community. The Gentile Pentecost is complete: vision, proclamation, Spirit-falling, glossolalia, water baptism, and apostolic fellowship. The chapter ends not with doctrine but with practice: transformed boundary-relationships.
Church Fathers on Acts 10:48
And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Acts 10:48 After he has cleared himself, then, and not before, he commands them to be baptized: teaching them by the facts themselves. Such was the dislike the Jews had to it! Therefore it is that he first clears himself, although the very facts cry aloud, and then gives the command. Then prayed they him— well might they do so — to tarry certain days: and with a good courage thenceforth he does tarry.
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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