Acts 10:1

Now a certain man was in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of the band called Italian,

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There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band,

In Context

2a devout man, and fearing God with all his house, and doing many charities for the people, and beseeching God always.

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Cross References

Matthew 27:27Then the soldiers of the governor, having taken Jesus into the Praetorium, gathered the whole band to him.

Mark 15:16And the soldiers led him away inside the courtyard, which is the Praetorium, and they call together the whole band.

John 18:3Judas therefore having received the band and subordinates from the chief priests and the Pharisees, comes there with lanterns and torches and weapons.

Acts 8:40But Philip was found at Azotus. And passing through all the cities he preached the good-news until he came to Caesarea.

Acts 22:25And as they stretched him out with the thongs, Paul said to the centurion who stood by, Is it permitted for you to scourge a Roman man, and uncondemned?

Acts 23:33who, after coming to Caesarea and having delivered the letter to the governor, also presented Paul to him.

Matthew Henry on Acts 10:1

It is a turn very new and remarkable which the story of this chapter gives to the Acts of the apostles; hitherto, both at Jerusalem and every where else where the ministers of Christ came, they preached the gospel only to the Jews, or those Greeks that were circumcised and proselyted to the Jews' religion; but now, "Lo, we turn to the Gentiles;" and to them the door of faith is here opened: good news indeed to us sinners of the Gentiles. The apostle Peter is the man that is first employed to admit uncircumcised… Read the whole commentary →

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