<p>11:16 <i>And <em>I remembered the word of the Lord</em></i>- The word recorded in Acts 1:5; the remembering of the Lord's word was an example of the promised work of the Comforter (Jn. 14:26). When dealing with this tricky ecclesial situation which arose over the admission of the Gentiles, Peter had truth and right on his side. But in his account of what happened to the elders, he constantly makes allusion to his own failures. &ldquo;I remembered the word of&nbsp;the Lord, how that he said&hellip;&rdquo; is an unmistakeable reference to his remembering of the Lord&rsquo;s word all too late after his denials. It&rsquo;s as if he was saying: &lsquo;And there I was again, not remembering the Lord&rsquo;s word, not facing up to what it obviously implied, almost denying Him again by hesitating to accept these Gentiles&rsquo;. He comments that the vision of the unclean animals came &ldquo;even to me&rdquo;, as if he was the least worthy to have been involved with this work.&nbsp;</p><p><em>How he said that John indeed baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit</em>- The &quot;you&quot; referred to the disciples; the fact Gentiles had now been baptized with the Spirit meant that they were no less, spiritually, than the first disciples who journeyed with Jesus in Galilee. The 'baptism with the Holy Spirit' in the context would seem to refer to an internal purifying of the believer by the Spirit which was began around the time of their water baptism (Acts 15:9). They were to be given a holy 'spirit' or mind / thinking.</p>