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And at once in the synagogues he proclaimed the Christ, that this One is the Son of God.

one devout and fearing God, with all his house, both doing many alms to the people and praying continually to God.

About the ninth hour of the day, he saw plainly in a vision an angel of God coming to him, and saying to him, Cornelius!

And he was staring at him, and becoming terrified he said, What is it, Lord? And he said to him, Your prayers and your alms went up for a memorial before God.

And again a voice came to him a second time , What things God made clean, you do not make common.

And they said, Cornelius, a centurion, a just man and one fearing God, and being testified to by all the nation of the Jews, was divinely warned by a holy angel to call you to his house and to hear words from you.

And he said to them, You know how unlawful it is for a man, a Jew, to unite with or to come near to one of another race. Yet God showed to me not to call a man common or unclean.

And he said, Cornelius, your prayer was heard and your alms were remembered before God.

Then at once I sent to you, and you did well to come. Now then, we are all present before God to hear all the things having been commanded you by God.

And opening his mouth, Peter said, Truly I see that God is not a respecter of faces,

Jesus the One from Nazareth, how God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good, and healing all those having been oppressed by the devil, because God was with Him.

God raised up this One the third day and gave to Him to become visible;

not to all the people, but to witnesses, the ones having been before hand-picked by God, to us who ate and drank with Him after His rising again from the dead.

And He commanded us to proclaim to the people and to witness solemnly that it is He who has been marked out by God to be Judge of the living and the dead.

For they heard them speaking in languages and magnifying God. Then Peter answered,

And the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the nations also received the Word of God.

But a voice answered me the second time out of the heaven, What God has cleansed, you do not make common.

Then if God gave the same gift to them as also to us, believing on the Lord Jesus Christ, and I, who was I to be able to prevent God?

And hearing these things, they kept silent and glorified God, saying, Then God also has granted to the nations repentance unto life.

who having come, and seeing the grace of God, rejoiced. And he exhorted all with purpose of heart to abide near the Lord.