Acts 10:1-8 ▼

1 Now there was a certain man at Caesarea named Cornelius, a centurion of what was called the Italian cohort,

2 a devout man, and one who feared God with all his household, and gave many alms to the Jewish people, and prayed to God continually.

3 About the ninth hour of the day he clearly saw in a vision an angel of God who had just come in to him, and said to him, “Cornelius!”

4 And fixing his gaze upon him and being much alarmed, he said, “What is it, Lord?” And he said to him, “Your prayers and alms have ascended as a memorial before God.

5 “And now dispatch some men to Joppa, and send for a man named Simon, who is also called Peter;

6 he is staying with a certain tanner named Simon, whose house is by the sea.”

7 And when the angel who was speaking to him had departed, he summoned two of his servants and a devout soldier of those who were in constant attendance upon him,

8 and after he had explained everything to them, he sent them to Joppa.