Acts 10:27-31

As he talked with him, he entered and *found many people assembled.

And he said to them, “You yourselves know that it is forbidden for a Jewish man to associate with or visit a foreigner; and yet God has shown me that I am not to call any person unholy or unclean.

That is why I came without even raising any objection when I was sent for. So I ask, for what reason did you send for me?”

Cornelius said, “Four days ago to this hour, I was praying in my house during the ninth hour; and behold, a man stood before me in shining clothing,

and he *said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your charitable gifts have been remembered before God.