Acts 10:1

Now there was at Caesarea a man named Cornelius, a captain in the Italian regiment.

Montgomery 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

2He was a devout man and God-fearing, and so were all his household. He gave many alms to the people, and constantly prayed to God.

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Cross References

Matthew 27:27Then the soldiers of the Governor took Jesus into the Praetorium, and gathered all the battalion together.

Mark 15:16The soldiers then led him away into the courtyard (Praetorium), and called together the whole battalion.

John 18:3So after getting troops and some Temple police from the chief priests and Pharisees, Judas came there with lanterns and torches and weapons.

Acts 8:40Philip found himself at Ashdod. Then visiting town after town, he kept preaching the good news in all the cities until he reached Caesarea.

Acts 22:25But when they had tied him up with the thongs, Paul said to the centurion who was standing near, "If a man is a Roman citizen, and uncondemned, is it lawful for you to scourge him?"

Acts 23:33They reached Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, and also presented Paul before 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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