1 En daar was in Cesar,a 'n man met die naam van Cornelius, 'n hoofman oor honderd van die sogenaamde Italiaanse leërafdeling.
2 Hy met sy hele huis was vroom en godvresend en het baie aalmoese aan die volk gegee en was altyddeur in die gebed tot God.
3 Hy het duidelik in 'n gesig omtrent die negende uur van die dag 'n engel van God na hom sien inkom en vir hom sê: Cornelius!
4 En hy het die oë op hom gehou en vol vrees gesê: Wat is dit, my heer? Toe antwoord hy hom: Jou gebede en jou aalmoese het voor God in gedagtenis gekom.
5 Stuur dan nou manne na Joppe en laat vir Simon haal wat ook Petrus genoem word.
6 Hy is tuis by 'n sekere Simon, 'n leerlooier, wie se huis by die see is. Hy sal jou sê wat jy moet doen.
7 En toe die engel wat met Cornelius gespreek het, weg was, roep hy twee van sy huisbediendes en 'n vroom soldaat van die wat altyd by hom was,
8 en vertel hulle alles en stuur hulle na Joppe.
9 En die volgende dag, terwyl hulle op pad was en naby die stad kom, het Petrus omtrent die sesde uur op die dak geklim om te bid;
10 en hy het baie honger geword en wou eet; en terwyl hulle besig was om klaar te maak, het daar 'n verrukking van sinne oor hom gekom:
11 hy sien die hemel geopend en 'n voorwerp soos 'n groot laken na hom afdaal, wat aan die vier hoeke vasgebind is en op die aarde neergelaat word.
12 Daarin was al die viervoetige diere van die aarde en die wilde en kruipende diere en die voëls van die hemel.
13 Toe kom daar 'n stem na hom: Staan op, Petrus, slag en eet!
14 En Petrus sê: Nooit nie, Here, want ek het nooit iets onheiligs of onreins geëet nie.
15 En weer het die stem vir die tweede keer na hom gekom: Wat God rein gemaak het, mag jy nie onheilig ag nie.
16 En dit het drie maal gebeur, en die voorwerp is weer in die hemel opgeneem.
17 En terwyl Petrus by homself daaroor verleë was wat die gesig tog kon beteken wat hy gesien het, staan die manne wat deur Cornelius gestuur was, daar by die poort en verneem na die huis van Simon.
18 En hulle roep en vra of Simon, wat ook Petrus genoem word, daar tuis is.
19 En terwyl Petrus nadink oor die gesig, sê die Gees vir hom: Daar is drie manne wat jou soek.
20 Staan dan op, klim af en gaan saam met hulle sonder om te twyfel, want Ek het hulle gestuur.
21 En Petrus het afgeklim na die manne wat deur Cornelius na hom gestuur was, en gesê: Kyk, dit is ek wat julle soek. Wat is die rede waarom julle hier is?
22 En hulle sê: Cornelius, 'n hoofman oor honderd, 'n regverdige en godvresende man, wat 'n goeie naam het by die hele Joodse nasie, het 'n goddelike openbaring ontvang deur 'n heilige engel, om u te laat haal na sy huis om te hoor wat u sal sê.
23 En hy het hulle binnegenooi en geherberg. En die volgende dag het Petrus saam met hulle afgereis, en enkele van die broeders uit Joppe het met hom saamgegaan.
24 Die dag daarop het hulle in Cesar,a aangekom. En Cornelius was hulle te wagte, en hy het alreeds sy familie en besondere vriende bymekaargeroep.
25 Toe Petrus dan binnekom, het Cornelius hom tegemoetgegaan en aan sy voete neergeval en hom hulde bewys.
26 Maar Petrus het hom opgerig en gesê: Staan op, ek is self ook maar 'n mens.
27 En onderwyl hy met hom spreek, gaan hy binne en vind baie wat vergader het;
28 en hy sê vir hulle: Julle weet dat dit ongeoorloof is vir 'n Joodse man om met iemand van 'n ander volk omgang te hê of hom te besoek; maar God het my getoon dat ek geen mens onheilig of onrein mag noem nie.
29 Daarom het ek, toe ek gehaal is, gekom sonder om teë te spreek. Ek vra dan om watter rede julle my laat haal het.
30 En Cornelius sê: Vier dae gelede was ek besig om te vas tot op hierdie uur, en die negende uur het ek in my huis gebid,
31 en meteens staan daar 'n man voor my in 'n blink kleed en sê: Cornelius, jou gebed is verhoor en jou aalmoese is voor God in herinnering gebring.
32 Stuur dan na Joppe en laat Simon haal wat ook Petrus genoem word. Hy vertoef in die huis van Simon, 'n leerlooier, by die see; as hy kom, sal hy met jou spreek.
33 Ek het toe op die daad na u gestuur, en u het goed gedoen om te kom. Ons is dan nou almal voor die aangesig van God aanwesig om alles te hoor wat deur God aan u opgedra is.
34 En Petrus het sy mond geopen en gesê: Ek sien waarlik dat God geen aannemer van die persoon is nie,
35 maar dat in elke nasie die een wat Hom vrees en geregtigheid doen, Hom welgevallig is.
36 Dit is die woord wat Hy gestuur het aan die kinders van Israel toe Hy die evangelie van vrede verkondig het deur Jesus Christus -- Hy is die Here van almal.
37 Julle weet van die saak wat deur die hele Judiagebeur het en van Galil,a af begin het, n die doop wat Johannes gepreek het,
38 met betrekking tot Jesus van N saret, hoe God Hom gesalf het met die Heilige Gees en met krag. Hy het die land deurgegaan, goed gedoen en almal genees wat onder die mag van die duiwel was, omdat God met Hom was.
39 En ons is getuies van alles wat Hy gedoen het in die Joodse land en in Jerusalem. En hulle het Hom omgebring deur Hom aan 'n kruishout op te hang.
40 Hom het God op die derde dag opgewek en beskik dat Hy sou verskyn
41 nie aan die hele volk nie, maar aan getuies wat deur God vantevore verkies was, aan ons wat met Hom saam geëet en gedrink het nadat Hy uit die dode opgestaan het.
42 En Hy het ons bevel gegee om aan die volk te verkondig en met krag te betuig dat dit Hy is wat deur God bestem is as Regter van lewende en dode.
43 Aangaande Hom getuig al die profete dat elkeen wat in Hom glo, vergifnis van sondes deur sy Naam ontvang.
44 En toe Petrus nog besig was om hierdie woorde te spreek, het die Heilige Gees op almal geval wat die woord gehoor het.
45 En die gelowiges uit die besnydenis, almal wat saam met Petrus gekom het, was verbaas dat die gawe van die Heilige Gees ook op die heidene uitgestort is.
46 Want hulle het gehoor hoe hulle in tale spreek en God groot maak. Toe het Petrus begin spreek:
47 Niemand kan tog die water weer, dat hierdie mense, wat net soos ons die Heilige Gees ontvang het, nie gedoop word nie?
48 En hy het beveel dat hulle gedoop moet word in die Naam van die Here. Toe het hulle hom gevra om nog 'n paar dae te bly.
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;
8 And having given them an account of everything, he sent them to Joppa.
9 Now the day after, when they were on their journey and were near the town, Peter went up to the top of the house for prayer, about the sixth hour:
10 And he was in need of food: but while they were getting it ready, a deep sleep came on him;
11 And he saw the heavens opening, and a vessel coming down, like a great cloth let down on the earth,
12 In which were all sorts of beasts and birds.
13 And a voice came to him, saying, Come, Peter; take them for food.
14 But Peter said, No, Lord; for I have never taken food which is common or unclean.
15 And the voice came to him a second time, What God has made clean, do not you make common.
16 And this was done three times: and then the vessel was taken back into heaven.
17 Now while Peter was in doubt as to the purpose of this vision, the men who were sent by Cornelius, having made search for Simon's house, came to the door,
18 To see if Simon, named Peter, was living there.
19 And, while Peter was turning the vision over in his mind, the Spirit said to him, See, three men are looking for you.
20 Go down, then, and go with them, doubting nothing, for I have sent them.
21 And Peter went down to the men, and said, I am the man you are looking for: why have you come?
22 And they said, Cornelius, a captain, an upright and God-fearing man, respected by all the nation of the Jews, had word from God by an angel to send for you to his house, and to give hearing to your words.
23 So he took them in for the night. And the day after, he went with them, taking some of the brothers from Joppa with him.
24 And the day after that, they came to Caesarea. And Cornelius was waiting for them, having got together his relations and his near friends.
25 And when Peter came in, Cornelius came to him and, falling down at his feet, gave him worship.
26 But Peter, lifting him up, said, Get up, for I am a man as you are.
27 And saying these words, he went in, and saw that a great number of people had come together;
28 And he said to them, You yourselves have knowledge that it is against the law for a man who is a Jew to be in the company of one who is of another nation; but God has made it clear to me that no man may be named common or unclean:
29 And so I came without question, when I was sent for. What then is your purpose in sending for me?
30 And Cornelius said, Four days from now I was in my house in prayer at the ninth hour; and I saw before me a man in shining clothing,
31 Who said, Cornelius, your prayer has come to the ears of God, and your offerings are kept in his memory.
32 Send, then, to Joppa, and get Simon, named Peter, to come to you; he is living in the house of Simon, a leather-worker, by the sea.
33 So, straight away, I sent for you; and you have done well to come. And now, we are all present before God, ready to give attention to all the things which the Lord has given you to say.
34 Then Peter said, Truly, I see clearly that God is no respecter of persons:
35 But in every nation, the man who has fear of him and does righteousness is pleasing to him.
36 The word which he sent to the children of Israel, giving the good news of peace through Jesus Christ (who is Lord of all)--
37 That word you yourselves have knowledge of, which was made public through all Judaea, starting from Galilee, after the baptism of which John was the preacher,
38 About Jesus of Nazareth, how God gave the Holy Spirit to him, with power: and how he went about doing good and making well all who were troubled by evil spirits, for God was with him.
39 And we are witnesses of all the things which he did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem; whom they put to death, hanging him on a tree.
40 On the third day God gave him back to life, and let him be seen,
41 Not by all the people, but by witnesses marked out before by God, even by us, who took food and drink with him after he came back from the dead.
42 And he gave us orders to give news of this to the people, and to give public witness that this is he whom God has made judge of the living and the dead.
43 To him all the prophets give witness, that through his name everyone who has faith in him will have forgiveness of sins.
44 While Peter was saying these words, the Holy Spirit came on all those who were hearing the word.
45 And the Jews of the faith, who had come with Peter, were full of wonder, because the Holy Spirit was given to the Gentiles,
46 And they were talking in tongues, and giving glory to God. Then Peter said,
47 Will any man say that these may not have baptism who have been given the Holy Spirit as we have?
48 And he gave orders for them to have baptism in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they kept him with them for some days.