Acts 10:9-23

⁹Now on the morrow, as they were on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray, about the sixth hour: ¹⁰and he became hungry, and desired to eat: but while they made ready, a trance fell upon him; ¹¹and he beholdeth the heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it were a great sheet, bound at the four corners, and let down upon the earth: ¹²wherein were all manner of four-footed beasts of the earth and wild beasts and creeping things and birds of the heaven. ¹³And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill and eat. ¹⁴But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean. ¹⁵And a voice came unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, make not thou common. ¹⁶And this was done thrice: and the vessel was received up again into heaven.¹⁷Now while Peter was much perplexed in himself what the vision which he had seen might mean, then, behold, the men that were sent from Cornelius, having made inquiry for Simon’s house, stood before the gate, ¹⁸and called and asked whether Simon, who was surnamed Peter, were lodging there. ¹⁹And while Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit said unto him, Behold, men are seeking thee. ²⁰But arise, and get thee down, and go with them, nothing doubting: for I have sent them. ²¹And Peter went down to the men, and said, Behold, I am he whom ye seek: what is the cause wherefore ye are come? ²²And they said, Cornelius a centurion, a righteous man and one that feareth God, and well reported of by all the nation of the Jews, was warned of God by a holy angel to send for thee into his house, and to hear words from thee. ²³So he called them in and lodged them.And on the morrow Peter went forth with them, and certain of the brethren from Joppa accompanied him.