Acts 10:1-13

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

²devout and fearing God with all his household, both giving alms generously to the people and praying to God about everything.

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

⁴Well, staring at him and being frightened he said, “What is it, Lord?” So he said to him: “Your prayers and your alms have come up for a memorial before God.

⁵Now send men to Joppa and summon Simon, who is surnamed Peter;

⁶he is lodging with one Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the sea.”

⁷So when the angel who spoke to him had departed, Cornelius called two of his household servants and a devout soldier from among those who were faithful to him,

⁸and explaining everything to them 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 noon.

¹⁰Well he became hungry and wanted to eat; but while they were preparing, a trance fell on him,

¹¹and he saw the heaven opened and a container like a great sheet descending to him—it was tied at the four corners and was being let down to the earth—

¹²in which were all kinds of four-footed animals of the earth (both wild animals and reptiles) and birds of the sky.

¹³Then a voice came to him, “Get up, Peter, slaughter and eat!”