Lord (κυριε). Cornelius recognizes the angel of God (verse 3) as God's messenger.

Are gone up (ανεβησαν). …

And when he looked on him. Greek, Having fixed his eyes attentively on him.

He was afraid. At the suddenne and unexpected …

Are come up for a memorial before God.—The word so used was emphatically sacrificial and liturgical, as, for example, in …

“One day about three in the afternoon,” an angel of God appeared to Cornelius in a vision and called him by name. The time element here emphasizes …

And he beheld, and was afraid. Luke expresses his attentiveness in plain words, so that we may know that it was no empty illusion that cam…

And when he looked on him, he was afraid
What with the brightness of his clothing, (Acts 10:30) and the …

Until now, none had been baptized into the Christian church except Jews, Samaritans, and those converts who had been circumcised and observed the c…