Acts 10:1

There was a certain man in Caesarea ,.... This was the Caesarea formerly called Strato's tower, not Caesarea Philippi; for the former, and not the latter, lay near Joppa:

called Cornelius ; which was a Roman name, and he himself was a Roman or an Italian:

a centurion of the band called the Italian band ; which consisted of soldiers collected out of Italy, from whence the band took its name, in which Cornelius was a centurion, having a hundred men under him, as the name of his office signifies.