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# Connecting Statement:
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This is the end of the part of the story about Cornelius.
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# General Information:
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The words "he" and "him" refer to Peter.
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# Gentiles speak in other languages and praising God
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These were known spoken languages that caused the Jews to acknowledge that the Gentiles were indeed praising God.
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# Can anyone keep water from these people so they should not be baptized, these people who have received ... we?
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Peter uses this question to convince the Jewish Christians that the Gentile believers should be baptized. AT: "No one should keep water from these people! We should baptize them because they have received ... we!" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
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# he commanded them to be baptized
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It is implied that the Jewish Christians were the ones who would baptize them. AT: "Peter commanded the the Gentile believers to allow the Jewish Christians to baptize them" or "Peter commanded the Jewish Christians to baptize them" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
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# be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ
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Here "in the name of Jesus Christ" expresses that the reason for their baptism was that they believed in Jesus. AT: "be baptized as believers in Jesus Christ" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]]) |