and he said to them, `To you it hath been given to know the secret of the reign of God, but to those who are without, in similes are all the things done;
And they said, `Cornelius, a centurion, a man righteous and fearing God, well testified to, also, by all the nation of the Jews, was divinely warned by a holy messenger to send for thee, to his house, and to hear sayings from thee.'