Acts 10:1-13

¹Now there was a certain man in Caesarea named Cornelius, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment,

²a devout man, and one that feared God, together with all his household, who often gave alms to the people, and making petition to God always.

³About the ninth hour of the day, he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God coming to him and saying to him, “Cornelius!”

⁴And looking intently at him and becoming fearful he said, “What is it, lord?” And he said to him, “Your prayers and your alms have come up for a memorial before God.

⁵Now send men to Joppa, and send for Simon whose surname is Peter.

⁶He is staying as a guest with one Simon, a tanner, whose house is beside the sea.”

⁷Now when the angel who had been speaking to Cornelius had departed, he called two of his servants and a devout soldier from among those who waited on him continually.

⁸And explaining to them everything, he sent them to Joppa.

⁹Now on the next day, as they were traveling and drawing near to the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray, at about the sixth hour.

¹⁰And he became hungry and wanted to eat; but while they were preparing, he fell into a trance.

¹¹And he saw heaven having been opened, and descending to him a certain vessel like a great sheet, having been bound at the four corners, and being let down upon the ground,

¹²in which were all the four-footed animals of the earth and the wild animals, and the reptiles, and the birds of the air.

¹³And there came a voice to him, saying, “Arise, Peter; kill and eat.”