Acts 10:9
Now the day after, when they were on their journey and were near the town, Peter went up to the top of the house for prayer, about the sixth hour:
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8And having given them an account of everything, he sent them to Joppa.
10And he was in need of food: but while they were getting it ready, a deep sleep came on him;
Cross References
1 Samuel 9:25And when they had come down from the high place into the town, where a bed was made ready for Saul, he went to rest.
Jeremiah 19:13And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which they have made unclean, will be like the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs perfumes have been burned to all the army of heaven, and drink offerings drained out to other gods.
Daniel 6:10\6:9\For this reason King Darius put his name on the writing and the order.
Matthew 6:6But when you make your prayer, go into your private room, and, shutting the door, say a prayer to your Father in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will give you your reward.
Matthew 24:17Let not him who is on the house-top go down to take anything out of his house:
Mark 1:35And in the morning, a long time before daylight, he got up and went out to a quiet place, and there he gave himself up to prayer.
Matthew Henry on Acts 10:2-9
The Case of Cornelius. 1 There was a certain man in Cæsarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band, 2 A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway. 3 He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him, Cornelius. 4 And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a… Read the whole commentary →