28. And 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;
29. therefore also without gainsaying I came, having been sent for; I ask, therefore, for what matter ye did send for me?'
30. And 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,
31. and he said, Cornelius, thy prayer was heard, and thy kind acts were remembered before God;
32. send, therefore, to Joppa, and call for Simon, who is surnamed Peter; this one doth lodge in the house of Simon a tanner, by the sea, who having come, shall speak to thee;
33. at once, therefore, I sent to thee; thou also didst do well, having come; now, therefore, are we all before God present to hear all things that have been commanded thee by God.'
34. And Peter having opened his mouth, said, `Of a truth, I perceive that God is no respecter of persons,
35. but in every nation he who is fearing Him, and is working righteousness, is acceptable to Him;
36. the word that he sent to the sons of Israel, proclaiming good news--peace through Jesus Christ (this one is Lord of all,)
37. ye--ye have known; --the word that came throughout all Judea, having begun from Galilee, after the baptism that John preached;
38. Jesus who [is] from Nazareth--how God did anoint him with the Holy Spirit and power; who went through, doing good, and healing all those oppressed by the devil, because God was with him;
39. and we--we are witnesses of all things that he did, both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem, --whom they did slay, having hanged upon a tree.
40. `This one God did raise up the third day, and gave him to become manifest,
41. not to all the people, but to witnesses, to those having been chosen before by God--to us who did eat with [him], and did drink with him, after his rising out of the dead;