Acts 10:23-41

²³Therefore he invited them in and received them as guests. Now on the next day Peter went forth with them, and some brothers from Joppa went with him.

²⁴And on the next day they entered into Caesarea. And Cornelius was waiting for them, having called together his relatives and close friends.

²⁵Now when it happened that Peter entered, Cornelius met him, and fell at his feet and worshiped him.

²⁶But Peter raised him up, saying, “Stand up; I too am just a man.”

²⁷And talking with him he went in, and found many having gathered,

²⁸and he said to them, “You know how unlawful it is for a Jewish man to associate with or to approach a Gentile; and yet God has shown to me that I should call no man common or unclean;

²⁹therefore also without objecting, I came when I was sent for. I ask, then, for what reason have you sent for me?”

³⁰So Cornelius said, “From the fourth day until this hour I was fasting, and at the ninth hour I was praying in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in shining clothing,

³¹and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard, and your alms are remembered before God.

³²Send therefore to Joppa and summon Simon, whose surname is Peter. He is staying as a guest in the house of Simon, a tanner, beside the sea. When he arrives, he will speak to you.’

³³Therefore immediately I sent to you, and you have done well to come. Now then we are all present before God, to hear all the things having been commanded you by God.”

³⁴And Peter, opening his mouth, said: “In truth I comprehend that God is not One to show partiality.

³⁵But in every nation, he that fears Him and works righteousness is acceptable to Him.

³⁶The word which God sent to the sons of Israel, preaching the good news of peace through Jesus Christ—He being Lord of all—

³⁷you know, the word coming to be throughout all of Judea, and beginning from Galilee after the baptism which John proclaimed,

³⁸Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all those who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with Him.

³⁹And we are witnesses of all things which He did, both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem, whom they also killed by hanging on a tree.

⁴⁰This Jesus God raised up on the third day, and caused Him to be seen,

⁴¹not to all the people, but to witnesses, who having been chosen beforehand by God, even to us, who ate and drank together with Him after He arose from the dead.