Acts 10:39. We are witnesses. There is an emphatic stress in this sentence on the word ‘we' Dean Alford adds very justly, that by this emphatic word Peter at once takes away the ground from the exaggerated reverence for himself individually, shown by Cornelius (Acts 10:25), and puts himself, and the rest of the apostles, in the strictly subordinate place of witnesses for Another.

All things which he did. See Acts 1:21-22, where it is made essential that an apostle should be able to bear personal testimony regarding ‘all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among them, beginning from the baptism of John' and continuing to the Ascension.

Whom they slew and hanged on a tree. St. Peter does not shrink from setting forth strongly the humiliating circumstances of the death of Christ. His purpose is to lead Cornelius to the Cross (see Acts 10:43).

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