Acts 10:29
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
Therefore came I to you without gainsaying, as soon as I was sent for: I ask therefore for what intent you have sent for me?
American King James Version (AKJV)
Therefore came I to you without gainsaying, as soon as I was sent for: I ask therefore for what intent you have sent for me?
American Standard Version (ASV)
wherefore also I came without gainsaying, when I was sent for. I ask therefore with what intent ye sent for me.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
And so I came without question, when I was sent for. What then is your purpose in sending for me?
Webster's Revision
Therefore I came to you without gainsaying, as soon as I was sent for: I ask therefore for what intent ye have sent for me?
World English Bible
Therefore also I came without complaint when I was sent for. I ask therefore, why did you send for me?"
English Revised Version (ERV)
wherefore also I came without gainsaying, when I was sent for. I ask therefore with what intent ye sent for me.
Definitions for Acts 10:29
Clarke's Acts 10:29 Bible Commentary
I ask - for what intent ye have sent for me? - Peter had been informed of this by the servants of Cornelius, Acts 10:22; but, as all the company might not have been informed of the circumstances, he, as it were, invites him to tell his story afresh, that his friends, etc., might be the better prepared to receive the truth, which he was about to dispense, in obedience to his Divine commission.
Barnes's Acts 10:29 Bible Commentary
Without gainsaying - without "saying anything against it"; without hesitation or reluctance.
I ask, therefore ... - The main design for which Cornelius had sent for him had been mentioned to Peter by the messenger, Acts 10:22. But Peter now desired from his own lips a more particular statement of the considerations which had induced him to send for him.
For what intent - For what purpose or design.
Wesley's Acts 10:29 Bible Commentary
10:29 I ask for what intent ye have sent for me? - St. Peter knew this already. But he puts Cornelius on telling the story, both that the rest might be informed, and Cornelius himself more impressed by the narration: the repetition of which, even as we read it, gives a new dignity and spirit to Peter's succeeding discourse,