Acts 10:28-30

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

²⁸ And he said to them, You yourselves are aware how it is not lawful or permissible for a Jew to keep company with or to visit or [even] to come near or to speak first to anyone of another nationality, but God has shown and taught me by words that I should not call any human being common or unhallowed or [ceremonially] unclean.

²⁹ Therefore when I was sent for, I came without hesitation or objection or misgivings. So now I ask for what reason you sent for me.

³⁰ And Cornelius said, This is now the fourth day since about this time I was observing the ninth hour (three o’clock in the afternoon) of prayer in my lodging place; [suddenly] a man stood before me in dazzling apparel,