And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning.

And when I had begun to speak, the Holy Ghost fell upon them, as upon us also in the beginning.

'And in my beginning to speak, the Holy Spirit did fall upon them, even as also upon us in the beginning,

"And," said Peter, "no sooner had I begun to speak than the Holy Spirit fell upon them, just as He fell upon us at the first.

And, while I was talking to them, the Holy Spirit came on them, as on us at first.

And when I had begun to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, just as upon us also, in the beginning.

I had but just begun to speak," continued Peter, "when the Holy Spirit fell on them, exactly as on us at the first;

And as I began to speak - Or, while I was speaking.
The Holy Ghost - Acts 10:44.

And as I began to speak,...., That is, whilst he was speaking; the word "begin" with Luke, both, in his Gospel and in this history, is used not to denote the time or order of any action, but the thing itself; as in Luke 4:21 for otherwise it was towards the close, and not at the beginning of his discourse, that what follows happened:
the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning; of our ministry, since the death, resurrection, and ascension of Christ; meaning on the day of Pentecost, and that the Holy Ghost fell on Cornelius and those that were with him, in a like visible form, and in the same kind of gifts, as speaking with tongues, as on them.