27. As he talked with him, he went in and found many gathered together.
28. He said to them, “You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn’t call any man unholy or unclean.
29. Therefore I also came without complaint when I was sent for. I ask therefore, why did you send for me?”
30. Cornelius said, “Four days ago, I was fasting until this hour, and at the ninth hour, I prayed in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,
31. and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your gifts to the needy are remembered in the sight of God.