Acts 10:1-8 ▼

1 Now [there was] a 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 and said to him, |Cornelius!|

4 And fixing his gaze on 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 |Now dispatch [some] men to Joppa and send for a man [named] Simon, who is also called Peter;

6 he is staying with a tanner [named] Simon, whose house is by the sea.|

7 When the angel who was speaking to him had left, he summoned two of his servants and a devout soldier of those who were his personal attendants,

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