A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.
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Interpretation
Hitherto none had been baptized into the Christian church but Jews, Samaritans, and those converts who had been circumcised and observed the ceremonial law; but now the Gentiles were to be called to partake all the privileges of God's people, without first becoming Jews.