10:23b–29 The setting for the third scene of this story is again Caesarea. The journey to the capital seems to have taken the best part of two days (v. 30), probably because the Christians were not mounted. Peter took with him six companions—Jewish Christians like himself (v. 45, lit., “men of the circumcision”; see disc. on 11:2)—who, according to a variant reading of 11:11, had been staying with him in Simon’s house. Their road lay along the coast, and since Apollonia was situated about halfway between Joppa and Caesarea, they very likely stayed there overnight. They arrived in Caesarea about midafternoon the next day (v. 30). Meanwhile, so certain was Cornelius that Peter would come, and knowing approximately how long it would take him, he was ready and waiting for him with his relative…