So get up! Go downstairs and accompany them without hesitation, because I have sent them.”
Parallel translations
- WEB But arise, get down, and go with them, doubting nothing; for I have sent them.”
- KJV Arise therefore, and get thee down, and go with them, doubting nothing: for I have sent them.
- NKJV Arise therefore, go down and go with them, doubting nothing; for I have sent them.”
- NASB But get up, go downstairs and accompany them without misgivings, for I have sent them Myself.”
- NLT Get up, go downstairs, and go with them without hesitation. Don’t worry, for I have sent them.”
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Quick answer
The Spirit commands Peter to go with the men without hesitation, for God Himself sent them. Obedience here means setting aside deep-rooted scruples.
Overview
To 'doubt nothing' is to act without the inner division that Peter's traditions would naturally raise about associating with Gentiles. The ground of the command is that God has sent them, so resistance would be resistance to God. The verse models trust in God's clear word even when it cuts against ingrained conviction.
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- Acts 15:7–9After much discussion, Peter got up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you that the Gentiles would hear from my lips the message of the gospel and believe.
- Zech 2:9–11I will surely wave My hand over them, so that they will become plunder for their own servants. Then you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me.”
- Isa 48:16Come near to Me and listen to this: From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time it happened, I was there.” And now the Lord GOD has sent me, accompanied by His Spirit.
- Mark 16:15And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.
- Acts 13:4So Barnabas and Saul, sent forth by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia and sailed from there to Cyprus.
- Acts 9:17So Ananias went to the house, and when he arrived, he placed his hands on Saul. “Brother Saul,” he said, “the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you were coming here, has sent me so that you may see again and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”
- Acts 9:15“Go!” said the Lord. “This man is My chosen instrument to carry My name before the Gentiles and their kings, and before the people of Israel.
- Acts 8:26Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Get up and go south to the desert road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.”
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