Acts 10:2-22

²A devout man , and one that feared God with all his house, who gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God always.

³He saw in a vision evidently, about the ninth hour of the day, an angel of God coming in to him, and saying to him, Cornelius.

⁴And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said to him, Thy prayers and thy alms are come up for a memorial before God.

⁵And now send men to Joppa, and call for one Simon, whose surname is Peter:

⁶He lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea-side: he will tell thee what thou oughtest to do.

⁷And when the angel who spoke to Cornelius had departed, he called two of his household servants, and a devout soldier of them that waited on him continually;

⁸And when he had declared all these things to them, he sent them to Joppa.

⁹On the morrow, as they were going on their journey, and drew nigh to the city, Peter went up upon the house-top to pray, about the sixth hour:

¹⁰And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance,

¹¹And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending to him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth:

¹²In which were all manner of four-footed beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping animals, and fowls of the air.

¹³And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat.

¹⁴But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.

¹⁵And the voice spoke to him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.

¹⁶This was done thrice: and the vessel was received again into heaven.

¹⁷Now while Peter doubted in himself what this vision which he had seen should mean, behold, the men who were sent from Cornelius had made inquiry for Simon's house, and were standing before the gate,

¹⁸And called, and asked whether Simon, who was surnamed Peter, lodged there.

¹⁹While Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit said to him, Behold, three men seek thee.

²⁰Arise therefore, and go down, and go with them, doubting nothing: for I have sent them.

²¹Then Peter went down to the men who were sent to him from Cornelius; and said, Behold, I am he whom ye seek: what is the cause for which ye have come?

²²And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one that feareth God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by a holy angel to send for thee into his house, and to hear words from thee.