1. Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of the band called the Italian band,
2. a devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, who gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.
3. He saw in a vision openly, as it were about the ninth hour of the day, an angel of God coming in unto him, and saying to him, Cornelius.
4. And he, fastening his eyes upon him, and being affrighted, said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are gone up for a memorial before God.