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30 Cornelius replied, “Four days ago[a] at this hour, three o’clock in the afternoon, I was at prayer in my house when suddenly a man in dazzling robes stood before me and said, 31 ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your almsgiving remembered before God. 32 Send therefore to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter. He is a guest in the house of Simon, a tanner, by the sea.’ 33 So I sent for you immediately, and you were kind enough to come. Now therefore we are all here in the presence of God to listen to all that you have been commanded by the Lord.”

Peter’s Speech.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 10:30 Four days ago: literally, “from the fourth day up to this hour.”
  2. 10:34–43 Peter’s speech to the household of Cornelius typifies early Christian preaching to Gentiles.