19. Now while Peter was mulling over the vision, the Ruach said to him, “Look here, three men are looking for you.
20. But get up, go downstairs, and go with them without hesitating, because I Myself have sent them.”
21. Going down to the men, Peter said, “Here, I’m the one you’re looking for. What is the reason for your coming?”
22. And they said, “Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous and God-fearing man well-spoken of by all the Jewish people, was directed by a holy angel to summon you to his house and to hear a message from you.”
23. So Peter invited them in to be his guests. The next day he got up and went with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa accompanied him.
24. The following day he entered Caesarea. Cornelius was waiting for them and had called together his relatives and close friends.
25. As Peter entered, Cornelius met him and fell down at his feet and worshiped him.
26. But Peter pulled him up, saying, “Stand up! I too am just a man.”
27. Talking with him, Peter went inside and found many people gathered.
28. He said to them, “You yourselves know that it is not permitted for a Jewish man to associate with a non-Jew or to visit him. Yet God has shown me that I should call no one unholy or unclean.
29. So I came without objection when I was sent for. I ask, then, what is the reason why you sent for me?”
30. Cornelius declared, “Four days ago at this hour, I was praying minchah in my house. Suddenly, a man stood in front of me in shining clothes.
31. He says, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your tzadakah remembered before God.