Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Acts 10:37
That saying ye yourselves know, which was published throughout all Judaea, beginning from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached.Ye yourselves know ... Cornelius and his assembled friends were far from being raw pagans; and the publication of the gospel had already been so extensively achieved, that Peter presumed their knowledge of the saying that "Jesus is Lord of all," and perhaps also their knowledge of some of the other great Christian teachings being enunciated. read more
Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Acts 10:36
The word which he sent unto the children of Israel, preaching good tidings of peace by Jesus Christ (he is Lord of all).Peter's entire speech, as recorded here, requires only fifty-eight seconds to be read aloud, which fact underscores the error of Dibelius, who said that "in the conversion of a centurion, such a comparatively long speech can have no place. (It) is a literary composition of the author Luke."[21] There can be no way of viewing this as "such a long speech"; such a criticism... read more