Acts 10:24-31

²⁴and on the morrow they did enter into Caesarea; and Cornelius was waiting for them, having called together his kindred and near friends,

²⁵and as it came that Peter entered in, Cornelius having met him, having fallen at his feet, did bow before him;

²⁶and Peter raised him, saying, 'Stand up; I also myself am a man;'

²⁷and talking with him he went in, and doth find many having come together.

²⁸And he said unto them, 'Ye know how it is unlawful for a man, a Jew, to keep company with, or to come unto, one of another race, but to me God did shew to call no man common or unclean;

²⁹therefore also without gainsaying I came, having been sent for; I ask, therefore, for what matter ye did send for me?'

³⁰And Cornelius said, 'Four days ago till this hour, I was fasting, and at the ninth hour praying in my house, and, lo, a man stood before me in bright clothing,

³¹and he said, Cornelius, thy prayer was heard, and thy kind acts were remembered before God;