John Gill
And said, Cornelius, thy prayer is heard,.... What he was now particularly making to God, as well as others he had before put up to him: and thine alms are had in remembrance in the sight of God; [See comments on Acts 10:4].
Matthew Henry
It is a turn very new and remarkable which the story of this chapter gives to the Acts of the apostles; hitherto, both at Jerusalem and every where else where the ministers of Christ came, they preached the gospel only to the Jews, or those Greeks that were circumcised and proselyted to the Jews' religion; but now, "Lo, we turn to the Gentiles;" and to them the door of faith is here opened: good...