Acts 10:1

NOW there was a man at Caesarea named Cornelius, a centurion of the cohort called the Italic,

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

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

2a man of piety, and who feared God with all his house, giving much alms to the people, and praying to God continually.

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Cross References

Matthew 27:27Thereupon the soldiers of the governor taking Jesus away to the Praetorium, gathered around him the whole band:

Mark 15:16Then the soldiers led him to the hall, which is the Praetorium, and called together the whole band.

John 18:3Then Judas having taken a band of soldiers, and the inferior officers of the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and arms.

Acts 8:40But Philip found himself at Azotus: and passing through he preached the gospel in all the cities, until he came to Caesarea.

Acts 22:25So as they were tying him up for the thongs, Paul said to the centurion standing by him, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman citizen, and uncondemned?

Acts 23:33So when they came to Caesarea, and had delivered the letter to the governor, they presented Paul also 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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