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# Acts 10

Acts 10 is chapter 10 of 28 in the Acts of the Apostles. Here are all 48 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Cornelius is received into the church. Peter's vision.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Acts 10 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, named Cornelius, a centurion of the cohort which is called Italian,
2. a devout man, fearing God with all his house, giving many alms to the people, and praying to God continually.
3. This man saw in a vision clearly, at about the ninth hour of the day, the Angel of God entering to him and saying to him: “Cornelius!”
4. And he, gazing at him, was seized by fear, and he said, “What is it, lord?” And he said to him: “Your prayers and your almsgiving have ascended as a memorial in the sight of God.
5. And now, send men to Joppa and summon a certain Simon, who is surnamed Peter.
6. This man is a guest with a certain Simon, a tanner, whose house is beside the sea. He will tell you what you must do.”
7. And when the Angel who was speaking to him had departed, he called, out of those who were subject to him, two of his household servants and a soldier who feared the Lord.
8. And when he had explained everything to them, he sent them to Joppa.
9. Then, on the following day, while they were making the journey and approaching the city, Peter ascended to the upper rooms, so that he might pray, at about the sixth hour.
10. And since he was hungry, he wanted to enjoy some food. Then, as they were preparing it, an ecstasy of mind fell over him.
11. And he saw heaven opened, and a certain container descending, as if a great linen sheet were let down, by its four corners, from heaven to earth,
12. on which were all four-footed beasts, and the crawling things of the earth and the flying things of the air.
13. And a voice came to him: “Rise up, Peter! Kill and eat.”
14. But Peter said: “Far be it from me, lord. For I have never eaten anything common or unclean.”
15. And the voice, again a second time to him: “What God has purified, you shall not call common.”
16. Now this was done three times. And immediately the container was taken up to heaven.
17. Now while Peter was still hesitant within himself as to what the vision, which he had seen, might mean, behold, the men who had been sent from Cornelius stood at the gate, inquiring about Simon’s house.
18. And when they had called out, they asked if Simon, who is surnamed Peter, was a guest in that place.
19. Then, as Peter was thinking about the vision, the Spirit said to him, “Behold, three men seek you.
20. And so, rise up, descend, and go with them, doubting nothing. For I have sent them.”
21. Then Peter, descending to the men, said: “Behold, I am the one whom you seek. What is the reason for which you have arrived?”
22. And they said: “Cornelius, a centurion, a just and God-fearing man, who has good testimony from the entire nation of the Jews, received a message from a holy Angel to summon you to his house and to listen to words from you.”
23. Therefore, leading them in, he received them as guests. Then, on following the day, rising up, he set out with them. And some of the brothers from Joppa accompanied him.
24. And on the next day, he entered Caesarea. And truly, Cornelius was waiting for them, having called together his family and closest friends.
25. And it happened that, when Peter had entered, Cornelius went to meet him. And falling before his feet, he reverenced.
26. Yet truly, Peter, lifting him up, said: “Rise up, for I also am only a man.”
27. And speaking with him, he entered, and he found many who had gathered together.
28. And he said to them: “You know how abominable it would be for a Jewish man to be joined with, or to be added to, a foreign people. But God has revealed to me to call no man common or unclean.
29. Because of this and without doubt, I came when summoned. Therefore, I ask you, for what reason have you summoned me?”
30. And Cornelius said: “It is now the fourth day, to this very hour, since I was praying in my house at the ninth hour, and behold, a man stood before me in a white vestment, and he said:
31. ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your almsgiving has been remembered in the sight of God.
32. Therefore, send to Joppa and summon Simon, who is surnamed Peter. This man is a guest in the house of Simon, a tanner, near the sea.’
33. And so, I promptly sent for you. And you have done well in coming here. Therefore, all of us are now present in your sight to hear all the things that were taught to you by the Lord.”
34. Then, Peter, opening his mouth, said: “I have concluded in truth that God is not a respecter of persons.
35. But within every nation, whoever fears him and works justice is acceptable to him.
36. God sent the Word to the sons of Israel, announcing the peace through Jesus Christ, for he is the Lord of all.
37. You know that the Word has been made known throughout all Judea. For beginning from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached,
38. Jesus of Nazareth, whom God anointed with the Holy Spirit and with power, traveled around doing good and healing all those oppressed by the devil. For God was with him.
39. And we are witnesses of all that he did in the region of Judea and in Jerusalem, he whom they killed by hanging him on a tree.
40. God raised him up on the third day and permitted him to be made manifest,
41. not to all the people, but to the witnesses preordained by God, to those of us who ate and drank with him after he rose again from the dead.
42. And he instructed us to preach to the people, and to testify that he is the One who was appointed by God to be the judge of the living and of the dead.
43. To him all the Prophets offer testimony that through his name all who believe in him receive the remission of sins.”
44. While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell over all of those who were listening to the Word.
45. And the faithful of the circumcision, who had arrived with Peter, were astonished that the grace of the Holy Spirit was also poured out upon the Gentiles.
46. For they heard them speaking in tongues and magnifying God.
47. Then Peter responded, “How could anyone prohibit water, so that those who have received the Holy Spirit would not be baptized, just as we also have been?”
48. And he ordered them to be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Then they begged him to remain with them for some days.

## Acts 10 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Vir autem quidam erat in Cæsarea, nomine Cornelius, centurio cohortis quæ dicitur Italica,
2. religiosus, ac timens Deum cum omni domo sua, faciens eleemosynas multas plebi, et deprecans Deum semper.
3. Is vidit in visu manifeste, quasi hora diei nona, angelum Dei introëuntem ad se, et dicentem sibi: Corneli.
4. At ille intuens eum, timore correptus, dixit: Quid est, domine? Dixit autem illi: Orationes tuæ et eleemosynæ tuæ ascenderunt in memoriam in conspectu Dei.
5. Et nunc mitte viros in Joppen, et accersi Simonem quemdam, qui cognominatur Petrus:
6. hic hospitatur apud Simonem quemdam coriarium, cujus est domus juxta mare: hic dicet tibi quid te oporteat facere.
7. Et cum discessisset angelus qui loquebatur illi, vocavit duos domesticos suos, et militem metuentem Dominum ex his qui illi parebant.
8. Quibus cum narrasset omnia, misit illos in Joppen.
9. Postera autem die, iter illis facientibus, et appropinquantibus civitati, ascendit Petrus in superiora ut oraret circa horam sextam.
10. Et cum esuriret, voluit gustare. Parantibus autem illis, cecidit super eum mentis excessus:
11. et vidit cælum apertum, et descendens vas quoddam, velut linteum magnum, quatuor initiis submitti de cælo in terram,
12. in quo erant omnia quadrupedia, et serpentia terræ, et volatilia cæli.
13. Et facta est vox ad eum: Surge, Petre: occide, et manduca.
14. Ait autem Petrus: Absit Domine, quia numquam manducavi omne commune et immundum.
15. Et vox iterum secundo ad eum: Quod Deus purificavit, tu commune ne dixeris.
16. Hoc autem factum est per ter: et statim receptum est vas in cælum.
17. Et dum intra se hæsitaret Petrus quidnam esset visio quam vidisset, ecce viri qui missi erant a Cornelio, inquirentes domum Simonis astiterunt ad januam.
18. Et cum vocassent, interrogabant, si Simon qui cognominatur Petrus illic haberet hospitium.
19. Petro autem cogitante de visione, dixit Spiritus ei: Ecce viri tres quærunt te.
20. Surge itaque, descende, et vade cum eis nihil dubitans: quia ego misi illos.
21. Descendens autem Petrus ad viros, dixit: Ecce ego sum, quem quæritis: quæ causa est, propter quam venistis?
22. Qui dixerunt: Cornelius centurio, vir justus et timens Deum, et testimonium habens ab universa gente Judæorum, responsum accepit ab angelo sancto accersire te in domum suam, et audire verba abs te.
23. Introducens ergo eos, recepit hospitio. Sequenti autem die, surgens profectus est cum illis, et quidam ex fratribus ab Joppe comitati sunt eum.
24. Altera autem die introivit Cæsaream. Cornelius vero exspectabat illos, convocatis cognatis suis et necessariis amicis.
25. Et factum est cum introisset Petrus, obvius venit ei Cornelius, et procidens ad pedes ejus adoravit.
26. Petrus vero elevavit eum, dicens: Surge: et ego ipse homo sum.
27. Et loquens cum illo intravit, et invenit multos qui convenerant:
28. dixitque ad illos: Vos scitis quomodo abominatum sit viro Judæo conjungi aut accedere ad alienigenam: sed mihi ostendit Deus neminem communem aut immundum dicere hominem.
29. Propter quod sine dubitatione veni accersitus. Interrogo ergo, quam ob causam accersistis me?
30. Et Cornelius ait: A nudiusquarta die usque ad hanc horam, orans eram hora nona in domo mea, et ecce vir stetit ante me in veste candida, et ait:
31. Corneli, exaudita est oratio tua, et eleemosynæ tuæ commemoratæ sunt in conspectu Dei.
32. Mitte ergo in Joppen, et accersi Simonem qui cognominatur Petrus: hic hospitatur in domo Simonis coriarii juxta mare.
33. Confestim ergo misi ad te: et tu benefecisti veniendo. Nunc ergo omnes nos in conspectu tuo adsumus audire omnia quæcumque tibi præcepta sunt a Domino.
34. Aperiens autem Petrus os suum, dixit: In veritate comperi quia non est personarum acceptor Deus;
35. sed in omni gente qui timet eum, et operatur justitiam, acceptus est illi.
36. Verbum misit Deus filiis Israël, annuntians pacem per Jesum Christum (hic est omnium Dominus).
37. Vos scitis quod factum est verbum per universam Judæam: incipiens enim a Galilæa post baptismum quod prædicavit Joannes,
38. Jesum a Nazareth: quomodo unxit eum Deus Spiritu Sancto, et virtute, qui pertransiit benefaciendo, et sanando omnes oppressos a diabolo, quoniam Deus erat cum illo.
39. Et nos testes sumus omnium quæ fecit in regione Judæorum, et Jerusalem, quem occiderunt suspendentes in ligno.
40. Hunc Deus suscitavit tertia die, et dedit eum manifestum fieri,
41. non omni populo, sed testibus præordinatis a Deo: nobis, qui manducavimus et bibimus cum illo postquam resurrexit a mortuis.
42. Et præcepit nobis prædicare populo, et testificari, quia ipse est qui constitutus est a Deo judex vivorum et mortuorum.
43. Huic omnes prophetæ testimonium perhibent remissionem peccatorum accipere per nomen ejus omnes qui credunt in eum.
44. Adhuc loquente Petro verba hæc, cecidit Spiritus Sanctus super omnes qui audiebant verbum.
45. Et obstupuerunt ex circumcisione fideles qui venerant cum Petro, quia et in nationes gratia Spiritus Sancti effusa est.
46. Audiebant enim illos loquentes linguis, et magnificantes Deum.
47. Tunc respondit Petrus: Numquid aquam quis prohibere potest ut non baptizentur hi qui Spiritum Sanctum acceperunt sicut et nos?
48. Et jussit eos baptizari in nomine Domini Jesu Christi. Tunc rogaverunt eum ut maneret apud eos aliquot diebus.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 334: Heaven and Earth ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 761: The Church in God's Plan ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 781: The Church - People of God, Body of Christ, Temple of the Holy Spirit ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 438: Christ ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 486: "Conceived By the Power of the Holy Spirit and Born of the Virgin Mary" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1289: Confirmation in the Economy of Salvation ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 597: Jesus Died Crucified ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 659: "He Ascended Into Heaven and Is Seated At the Right Hand of the Father" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 995: Christ's Resurrection and Ours ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 679: To Judge the Living and the Dead ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1226: Baptism in the Economy of Salvation ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 35: That is to say, not only Jews, but Gentiles also, of what nation soever, are acceptable to God, if they fear him and work justice. But then true faith is always to be presupposed, without which (saith St. Paul, Heb. 11. 6) it is impossible to please God. Beware then of the error of those, who would infer from this passage, that men of all religions may be pleasing to God. For since none but the true religion can be from God, all other religions must be from the father of lies, and therefore highly displeasing to the God of truth.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Sun, Jan 10, 2027: The Baptism of the Lord — Second Reading, Acts 10:34-38
- Sun, Mar 28, 2027: The Resurrection of the Lord — First Reading, Acts 10:34a, 37-43
- Sun, May 2, 2027: Sixth Sunday of Easter — First Reading, Acts 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48
- Sun, Jan 9, 2028 (computed): The Baptism of the Lord — Second Reading, Acts 10:34-38

1 more date through December 31, 2028, in the [liturgical calendar](https://blessbible.app/calendar/).

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option). Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).