Acts 10:2

1 Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, named Cornelius, the captain of the Italian band of the army;

2 A serious-minded man, fearing God with all his family; he gave much money to the poor, and made prayer to God at all times.

3 He saw in a vision, clearly, at about the ninth hour of the day, an angel of the Lord coming to him and saying to him, Cornelius!

4 And he, looking on him in fear, said, What is it, Lord? And he said to him, Your prayers and your offerings have come up to God, and he has kept them in mind.

5 Now send men to Joppa, and get one Simon, named Peter,

6 Who is living with Simon, a leather-worker, whose house is by the sea.

7 And when the angel who said these words to him had gone away, he sent for two of his house-servants, and a God-fearing man of the army, one of those who were waiting on him at all times;