Acts 10:1

At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion in what was called the Italian Regiment.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

2He and all his household were devout and God-fearing. He gave generously to the people and prayed to God regularly.

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Cross References

Matthew 27:27Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole company around Him.

Mark 15:16Then the soldiers led Jesus away into the palace (that is, the Praetorium) and called the whole company together.

John 18:3So Judas brought a band of soldiers and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees. They arrived at the garden carrying lanterns, torches, and weapons.

Acts 8:40But Philip appeared at Azotus and traveled through that region, preaching the gospel in all the towns until he came to Caesarea.

Acts 22:25But as they stretched him out to strap him down, Paul said to the centurion standing there, “Is it lawful for you to flog a Roman citizen without a trial?”

Acts 23:33When the horsemen arrived in Caesarea, they delivered the letter to the governor and 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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