But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”

Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time for prayer, at three o’clock in the afternoon.

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

All these continued together in prayer with one mind, together with the women, along with Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.

They were devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.

So Peter was kept in prison, but those in the church were earnestly praying to God for him.

On the Sabbath day we went outside the city gate to the side of the river, where we thought there would be a place of prayer, and we sat down and began to speak to the women who had assembled there.

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.

Now as we were going to the place of prayer, a slave girl met us who had a spirit that enabled her to foretell the future by supernatural means. She brought her owners a great profit by fortune-telling.