Acts 10:18

and called and asked whether Simon, who was also called Peter, was lodging there.

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WEBBE

and called and asked whether Simon, who was also called Peter, was lodging there.

BSB

They called out to ask if Simon called Peter was staying there.

KJV

And called, and asked whether Simon, which was surnamed Peter, were lodged there.

ASV

and called and asked whether Simon, who was surnamed Peter, were lodging there.

BBE

To see if Simon, named Peter, was living there.

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καὶ kai And G2532 φωνήσαντες phōnēsantes having called out G5455 ἐπυνθάνοντο epunthanonto they were asking G4441 εἰ ei if G1487 Σίμων Simōn Simon G4613 ὁ ho who G3588 ἐπικαλούμενος epikaloumenos is being called G1941 Πέτρος Petros Peter G4074 ἐνθάδε enthade here G1759 ξενίζεται.¶ xenizetai is lodged G3579

The early church

The men come at the right moment to solve his doubt: just as (the Lord) suffered Joseph first to be perturbed in mind, and then sends the Angel: for the soul with ease accepts the solution, when it has first been in perplexity. His perplexity neither lasts long (when it did occur), nor (did it occur) before this, but just at the moment when they "asked whether he were lodging there."
John Chrysostom · d. 407Homilies on Acts
Observe too how he did not at once receive them. For, it says, they "called, and asked, whether Simon, which was surnamed Peter, were lodging there." As it was a mean looking house, they asked below, they inquired of the neighbors.
John Chrysostom · d. 407Homilies on Acts

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 9–18

The prejudices of Peter against the Gentiles, would have prevented his going to Cornelius, unless the Lord had prepared him for this service. To tell a Jew that God had directed those animals to be reckoned clean which were hitherto deemed unclean, was in effect saying, that the law of Moses was done away. Peter was soon made to know the meaning of it. God knows what services are before us, and how to prepare us; and we know the meaning of what he has taught us, when we find what occasion we have to make use of it.

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