This man is staying as a guest with a certain Simon, a tanner,[a] whose house is by the sea.” And when the angel who spoke to him departed, he summoned two of the household slaves and a devout soldier from those who attended him, and after he[b] had explained everything to them, he sent them to Joppa.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 10:6 Or “with a certain Simon Berseus”; most modern English versions treat the word as Simon’s profession (“Simon the tanner”), but the word may actually be a surname (“Simon Berseus” or “Simon Tanner”)
  2. Acts 10:8 Here “after” is supplied as a component of the participle (“had explained”) which is understood as temporal