1. Now there was a man in Caesarea named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian Cohort.
2. He was a devout, God-fearing man, as was all his household; he did many acts of charity for the people and prayed to God regularly.
3. About three o’clock one afternoon he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God who came in and said to him, “Cornelius.”