1. Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of the band called the Italian band,
2. a devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, who gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.
3. He saw in a vision openly, as it were about the ninth hour of the day, an angel of God coming in unto him, and saying to him, Cornelius.