2A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.
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Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: …
And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God.
And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one that feareth God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee into his house, and to hear words of thee.
But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)The bringing of the gospel to the Gentiles, and the bringing of those who had been strangers and foreigners to be fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God, were such a mystery to the apostles themselves, and such a surprise ( Eph. 3:3 , 6 ), that it concerns us carefully to observe all the circumstances of the beginning of this great work, this part of the mystery of godliness—…
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