Acts 10:9

“On the morrow, as they went on their journey, etc.] From Caesarea to Joppa; Joppa is said to be six and thirty miles distant from Caesarea; so far Caesarea was from Lydda, but it seems to be further from Joppa; for according to Josephus f530, from Joppa to Antipatris were a hundred and fifty furlongs, which are almost nineteen miles, and from thence to Caesarea were twenty six miles; unless there was a nearer way by the sea shore, as there was a way by that from Caesarea to Joppa, of which the above author makes mention f531; wherefore they must either have set out the evening before, or early that morning, to get to Joppa by the sixth hour, or twelve o’clock at noon; as it seems they did,…”

“upon the housetop--the flat roof, the chosen place in the East for cool retirement. the sixth hour--noon.”

“Peter went up ... - The small room in the second story, or on the roof of the house, was the usual place for retirement and prayer. See the notes on Matthew 6:6; Matthew 9:2. Even when there was no room constructed on the roof, the roof was a common resort for retirement and prayer. Around the edge a battlement or parapet was commonly made, within which a person could be quite retired from public view. “At Jaffa, the ancient Joppa,” says Prof. Hackett (lllustrations of Scripture, p. 81), “where Peter was residing at the time of his vision on the house-top, I observed houses furnished with a wall around the roof, within which a person could sit or kneel without any exposure to the view of…”

“10:9-16 Peter received the same vision three times to confirm its truthfulness (see Gen 41:32; 2 Cor 13:1).”

“Peter: Act 10:8, Act 11:5-10; Sa1 9:25; Zep 1:5; Mat 6:6; Mar 1:35, Mar 6:46; Ti1 2:8 the sixth: Act 6:4; Psa 55:17; Dan 6:10; Mat 20:5, Mat 27:45; Eph 6:18 Acts 10:10”