Acts 10:1-8 ▼

1 NOW there was a man at Cæsarea named Cornelius, a centurion of the cohort called the Italic,

2 a man of piety, and who feared God with all his house, giving much alms to the people, and praying to God continually.

3 He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming to him, and saying to him, Cornelius.

4 Then looking stedfastly on him, and being terrified, he said, What means this, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God.

5 And now send men to Joppa, and inquire for Simon, who is surnamed Peter:

6 he lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose house is near the sea: this man will tell thee what thou must do.

7 But when the angel departed who spake to Cornelius, he called two of his domestics, and a pious soldier, persons who constantly were in attendance upon him;

8 and relating all things to them, sent them to Joppa.