Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Acts 10:29 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 29. 29Therefore came I unto you without gainsaying, as soon as I was sent for: I ask therefore for what intent ye have sent for me?
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Quick Meaning
Explains Peter's unresisting arrival and asks why he was summoned.
Read It With
- Acts 10:24–10:33
Acts 10:29 explains Peter's unresisting arrival and asks why he was summoned; within Acts 10:24–10:33, the controlling movement is that Cornelius gathers relatives and friends, falls at Peter's feet, is raised as a fellow human, and explains the vision; Peter says God has shown him not to call any person common or unclean.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Explains Peter's unresisting arrival and asks why he was summoned. This precise contribution belongs inside “Peter enters a Gentile household and corrects homage” because Cornelius gathers relatives and friends, falls at Peter's feet, is raised as a fellow human, and explains the vision; Peter says God has shown him not to call any person common or unclean.
What Remains True
Because Acts 10:29 explains Peter's unresisting arrival and asks why he was summoned, faithful witness must preserve the verse's speaker, narrated setting, people affected, and the full movement of Acts 10:24–10:33 before drawing an enduring claim.
How It Can Shape Life
- For Acts 10:29, first identify this verse role—explains Peter's unresisting arrival and asks why he was summoned; then explain the contextual meaning in Acts 10:24–10:33; preserve the proportionate truth about accountable witness; finally apply this boundary: The meeting does not authorize worship of leaders, antisemitic caricatures of Jewish separation, or colonial entry into households.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Acts 10:24–10:33 — Peter enters a Gentile household and corrects homageSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and unit coverage.
Exact location: Acts 10:24–10:33, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording and punctuation control, without pretending one edition is a complete apparatus.
Exact location: SBLGNT official text, Acts 10:24-10:33
Open the Acts Greek text file ↗Lexical and grammatical evidence
STEP Bible Data
Tyndale House Cambridge
Tyndale House Cambridge, repository snapshot verified 2026
Supports: Morphology and lexical cross-check for words explicitly discussed in this unit.
Exact location: STEP Bible Data, TAGNT rows for Acts 10:24-10:33
Open source ↗open translation and translator notes
NET Bible First Edition Notes: Acts
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-attached textual, translation, language, geography, chronology, and historical notes actually printed for the unit.
Exact location: NET Bible First Edition Acts PDF, printed pp. 2104-2205, exact tn/tc/sn entries attached to 10:24–10:33
Open source ↗