1. But a certain man in Caesarea, --by name Cornelius, a centurion of the band called Italic,
2. pious, and fearing God with all his house, both giving much alms to the people, and supplicating God continually,
3. --saw plainly in a vision, about the ninth hour of the day, an angel of God coming unto him, and saying to him, Cornelius.
4. But he, having fixed his eyes upon him, and become full of fear, said, What is it, Lord? And he said to him, Thy prayers and thine alms have gone up for a memorial before God.