Acts 10:1-8

Cornelius Has a Vision

1 Now [there was] a certain man in Caesarea {named} Cornelius, a centurion of what was called the Italian Cohort,

2 devout and fearing God together with all his household, doing many charitable deeds for the people and praying to God {continually}.

3 About the ninth hour of the day, he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God coming to him and saying to him, "Cornelius."

4 And he stared at him and became terrified [and] said, "What is [it], Lord?" And he said to him, "Your prayers and your charitable deeds have gone up for a memorial offering before God.

5 And now, send men to Joppa and summon a certain Simon, who is also called Peter.

6 This man is staying as a guest with a certain Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the sea."

7 And when the angel who spoke to him departed, he summoned two of the household slaves and a devout soldier from those who attended him,

8 and [after he] had explained everything to them, he sent them to Joppa.

Footnotes

• [a] Literally "by name"
• [b] Literally "through everything"
• [c] *Here "[and]" is supplied because the previous participle ("became") has been translated as a finite verb
• [d] Or "with a certain Simon Berseus"; most modern English versions treat the word as Simon's profession ("Simon the tanner"), but the word may actually be a surname ("Simon Berseus" or "Simon Tanner")
• [e] *Here "[after]" is supplied as a component of the participle ("had explained") which is understood as temporal