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While Peter was thinking about the vision, the Spirit told him, "Three men are here looking for you.
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Get up, go downstairs, and accompany them with no doubts at all, because I have sent them."
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Then Peter went down to the men and said, "Here I am, the one you're looking for. What is the reason you're here?"
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They said, "Cornelius, a centurion, an upright and God-fearing man, who has a good reputation with the whole Jewish nation, was divinely directed by a holy angel to call you to his house and to hear a message from you."
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Peter then invited them in and gave them lodging. The next day he got up and set out with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa went with him.
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The following day he entered Caesarea. Now Cornelius was expecting them and had called together his relatives and close friends.
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When Peter entered, Cornelius met him, fell at his feet, and worshiped him.
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But Peter helped him up and said, "Stand up! I myself am also a man."
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While talking with him, he went on in and found that many had come together there.
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Peter said to them, "You know it's forbidden for a Jewish man to associate with or visit a foreigner. But God has shown me that I must not call any person common or unclean.
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That's why I came without any objection when I was sent for. So I ask, 'Why did you send for me?' "
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Cornelius replied, "Four days ago at this hour, at three in the afternoon, I was praying in my house. Just then a man in a dazzling robe stood before me
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and said, 'Cornelius, your prayer has been heard, and your acts of charity have been remembered in God's sight.
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Therefore send someone to Joppa and invite Simon here, who is also named Peter. He is lodging in Simon the tanner's house by the sea.'
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Therefore I immediately sent for you, and you did the right thing in coming. So we are all present before God, to hear everything you have been commanded by the Lord."