Acts 10:20-32

²⁰Arise and go down and go with them. Do not hesitate to go with them, because I have sent them.”

²¹So Peter went down to the men and said, “I am he whom you are seeking. Why have you come?”

²²They said, “A centurion named Cornelius, a righteous man and one who worships God, and is well spoken of by all the nation of the Jews, was told by a holy angel of God to send for you to come to his house, so he could listen to a message from you.”

²³So Peter invited them to come in and stay with him. On the next morning he got up and went with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa accompanied him.

²⁴On the following day they came to Caesarea. Cornelius was waiting for them; he had called together his relatives and his close friends.

²⁵It came about that when Peter entered, Cornelius met him and fell down at his feet to worship him.

²⁶But Peter helped him up, saying, “Stand up! I too am a man.”

²⁷While Peter was talking with him, he went in and found many people gathered together.

²⁸He said to them, “You yourselves know that it is not lawful for a Jewish man to associate with or to visit someone from another nation. But God has shown me that I should not call any man defiled or unclean.

²⁹That is why I came without arguing, when I was sent for. So I ask you why you sent for me.”

³⁰Cornelius said, “Four days ago at this very hour, I was praying at the ninth hour in my house; and see, a man stood before me in bright clothing.

³¹He said, 'Cornelius, your prayer has been heard by God, and your gifts to the poor have reminded God about you.

³²So send someone to Joppa, and call to you a man named Simon who is called Peter. He is staying in the house of a tanner named Simon, by the seaside.'