Peter meets Cornelius

He, fastening his eyes on him, and being frightened, said, “What is it, Lord?” He said to him, “Your prayers and your gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial before God.

a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.

and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your gifts to the needy are remembered in the sight of God.

They said, “Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man and one who fears God, and well spoken of by all the nation of the Jews, was directed by a holy angel to invite you to his house, and to listen to what you say.”

A voice came to him again the second time, “What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean.”

At about the ninth hour of the day, he clearly saw in a vision an angel of God coming to him, and saying to him, “Cornelius!”