After several years I came to bring to my people gifts for the poor and to present offerings,

When he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple courts, he asked them for money.

and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your acts of charity have been remembered before God.

Now in Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha (which in translation means Dorcas). She was continually doing good deeds and acts of charity.

He was a devout, God-fearing man, as was all his household; he did many acts of charity for the people and prayed to God regularly.

And a man lame from birth was being carried up, who was placed at the temple gate called “the Beautiful Gate” every day so he could beg for money from those going into the temple courts.

and they recognized him as the man who used to sit and ask for donations at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, and they were filled with astonishment and amazement at what had happened to him.

Staring at him and becoming greatly afraid, Cornelius replied, “What is it, Lord?” The angel said to him, “Your prayers and your acts of charity have gone up as a memorial before God.