Acts 10:21
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Then Peter, going down to the men, said: Behold, I am he whom you seek. What is the cause for which you are come?

Behold.

John 1:38,39 And Jesus turning and seeing them following him, saith to them: What seek you? Who said to him: Rabbi (which is to say, being interpreted, Master), where dwellest thou? . . .

John 18:4-8 Jesus therefore, knowing all things that should come upon him, went forth and said to them: Whom seek ye? . . .

what.

Acts 10:29 For which cause, making no doubt, I came when I was sent for. I ask, therefore, for what cause you have sent for me?

Mark 10:51 And Jesus answering, said to him: What wilt thou that I should do to thee? And the blind man said to him: Rabboni. That I may see.

Context
Peter Called to Caesarea
20Arise, therefore: get thee down and go with them, doubting nothing: for I have sent them. 21Then Peter, going down to the men, said: Behold, I am he whom you seek. What is the cause for which you are come? 22Who said: Cornelius, a centurion, a just man and one that feareth God, and having good testimony from all the nation of the Jews, received an answer of an holy angel, to send for thee into his house And to hear words of thee.…
Cross References
Acts 10:20
Arise, therefore: get thee down and go with them, doubting nothing: for I have sent them.

Acts 10:22
Who said: Cornelius, a centurion, a just man and one that feareth God, and having good testimony from all the nation of the Jews, received an answer of an holy angel, to send for thee into his house And to hear words of thee.

Lexicon
[So]
δὲ (de)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc.

Peter
Πέτρος (Petros)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 4074: Peter, a Greek name meaning rock. Apparently a primary word; a rock; as a name, Petrus, an apostle.

went down
Καταβὰς (Katabas)
Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 2597: To go down, come down, either from the sky or from higher land, descend. From kata and the base of basis; to descend.

to
πρὸς (pros)
Preposition
Strong's Greek 4314: To, towards, with. A strengthened form of pro; a preposition of direction; forward to, i.e. Toward.

the
τοὺς (tous)
Article - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

men
ἄνδρας (andras)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 435: A male human being; a man, husband. A primary word; a man.

[and] said,
εἶπεν (eipen)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's Greek 2036: Answer, bid, bring word, command. A primary verb; to speak or say.

“Here
Ἰδοὺ (Idou)
Verb - Aorist Imperative Active - 2nd Person Singular
Strong's Greek 2400: See! Lo! Behold! Look! Second person singular imperative middle voice of eido; used as imperative lo!

am
εἰμι (eimi)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular
Strong's Greek 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

I,
ἐγώ (egō)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative 1st Person Singular
Strong's Greek 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

the one
ὃν (hon)
Personal / Relative Pronoun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 3739: Who, which, what, that.

you are looking for.
ζητεῖτε (zēteite)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 2212: To seek, search for, desire, require, demand. Of uncertain affinity; to seek; specially, to worship, or to plot.

Why
τίς (tis)
Interrogative / Indefinite Pronoun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's Greek 5101: Who, which, what, why. Probably emphatic of tis; an interrogative pronoun, who, which or what.

have you come?”
πάρεστε (pareste)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 3918: From para and eimi; to be near, i.e. At hand; neuter present participle time being, or property.


Additional Translations
So Peter went down to the men and said, “Here am I, the one you are looking for. Why have you come?”

And Peter, having gone down to the men, said, "Behold, I am whom you seek; what is the cause for which you are here?"

Then Peter went down to the men which were sent to him from Cornelius; and said, Behold, I am he whom you seek: what is the cause why you are come?

And Peter went down to the men, and said, Behold, I am he whom ye seek: what is the cause wherefore ye are come?

And Peter going down to the men said, Behold, I am he whom ye seek: what is the cause for which ye come?

And Peter went down to the men, and said, Behold, I am he whom ye seek: what is the cause wherefore ye are come?

Then Peter went down to the men who were sent to him from Cornelius; and said, Behold, I am he whom ye seek: what is the cause for which ye have come?

So Peter went down and said to the men, "I am the Simon you are inquiring for. What is the reason of your coming?"

Peter went down to the men, and said, "Behold, I am he whom you seek. Why have you come?"

and Peter having come down unto the men who have been sent from Cornelius unto him, said, 'Lo, I am he whom ye seek, what is the cause for which ye are present?'
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