28. And he said to them: You know how abominable it is for a man that is a Jew, to keep company or to come unto one of another nation: but God hath shewed to me, to call no man common or unclean.
29. For which cause, making no doubt, I came when I was sent for. I ask, therefore, for what cause you have sent for me?
30. And Cornelius said: Four days ago, unto this hour, I was praying in my house, at the ninth hour, and behold a man stood before me in white apparel, and said:
31. Cornelius, thy prayer is heard, and thy alms are had in remembrance in the sight of God.