The Pulpit Commentary on Acts 11:3

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Thou wentest in, etc. The circumstance of his eating with Cornelius and his friends is not expressly recorded in Acts 10:1-48., but almost necessarily follows from what is there stated. It had been seized upon as the chief sting in their report by those who brought the news to Jerusalem.

Observe the total absence of anything like papal domination on the part of Peter.

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