ACTS—NOTE ON Acts 10:1 Cornelius resided at Caesarea (see note on 8:40). He was a centurion, a commander of 100 men. A Cohort usually consisted of 600 men under the command of six centurions. In remote areas such as Judea a cohort might have as many as 1,000 men. Centurions were paid as much as five times the pay of an ordinary soldier, so Cornelius would have been socially prominent and wealthy.

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