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Cornelius (Greek: Κορνήλιος, romanized: Kornḗlios; Latin: Cornelius; fl. 1st century AD) was a Roman centurion who is considered by some Christians to be the first Gentile to convert to the faith, as related in Acts of the Apostles (see Ethiopian eunuch for the competing tradition). The baptism of Cornelius is an important event in ...
Unaware of the vision received by Cornelius, Peter was still up on the roof-top, puzzling over the meaning of the vision he had just seen (10:17,19), when the emissaries of Cornelius knocked at the door downstairs. [6] The Spirit's "direct intervention" leads Peter to go downstairs to meet them (verse 19). Peter, directed that "I have sent them ...
A cohort based in Caesarea is referred to in the Acts of the Apostles (Ancient Greek: σπείρης τῆς καλουμένης Ἰταλικῆς, "of the cohort called Italian", in Acts 10:1, translated as the Italian band in the King James Version, or the Italian Regiment in the Good News Translation and World English Bible), and is associated with Cornelius the Centurion, the first ...
Cornelius of Antioch (also romanized as Korneilos) was the bishop of Antioch between 127 and 151 AD [1] or 154 AD, [2] successor of Saint Herodian as bishop according to Eusebius of Caesarea. [3] He was the first Christian leader with an aristocratic Roman name. Little is known about his deeds and life. [citation needed]
It would also be the only miracle story that originated in Q. One possibility is that only the dialogue was in Q, and both Matthew and Luke added the background details from a shared oral history. [3] The Gospel of John does narrate the account of Jesus healing the son of a royal official at Capernaum at a distance in John 4:46–54.
Cornelius (name), Roman family name and a masculine given name; Cornelius the Centurion, Roman centurion considered by Christians to be the first Gentile to convert to the Christian faith; Pope Cornelius, pope from AD 251 to 253; St. Cornelius (disambiguation), multiple saints; Cornelius (musician), stage name of Keigo Oyamada
The first English use of the expression "meaning of life" appears in Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus (1833–1834), book II chapter IX, "The Everlasting Yea". [1]Our Life is compassed round with Necessity; yet is the meaning of Life itself no other than Freedom, than Voluntary Force: thus have we a warfare; in the beginning, especially, a hard-fought battle.
The Bible [a] is a collection of religious texts and scriptures that are held to be sacred in Christianity, and partly in Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baháʼí Faith, and other Abrahamic religions. The Bible is an anthology (a compilation of texts of a variety of forms) originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koine Greek. The texts ...