Acts 10:2-28

²A deuoute man, and one that feared God with all his housholde, which gaue much almes to the people, and prayed God continually.

³He sawe in a vision euidently (about the ninth houre of the day) an Angel of God comming in to him, and saying vnto him, Cornelius.

⁴But when hee looked on him, hee was afrayd, and sayd, What is it, Lord? and he sayd vnto him, Thy prayers and thine almes are come vp into remembrance before God.

⁵Nowe therefore send men to Ioppa, and call for Simon, whose surname is Peter.

⁶Hee lodgeth with one Simon a Tanner, whose house is by the sea side: he shall tell thee what thou oughtest to doe.

⁷And when the Angel which spake vnto Cornelius, was departed, he called two of his seruants, and a souldier that feared God, one of them that waited on him,

⁸And tolde them all things, and sent them to Ioppa.

⁹On the morow as they went on their iourney, and drew neere vnto the citie, Peter went vp vpon the house to pray, about the sixt houre.

¹⁰Then waxed hee an hungred, and would haue eaten: but while they made some thing ready, he fell into a trance.

¹¹And hee sawe heauen opened, and a certaine vessell come downe vnto him, as it had bene a great sheete, knit at the foure corners, and was let downe to the earth.

¹²Wherein were all maner of foure footed beastes of the earth, and wilde beastes and creeping things, and foules of the heauen.

¹³And there came a voyce to him, Arise, Peter: kill, and eate.

¹⁴But Peter sayd, Not so, Lord: for I haue neuer eaten any thing that is polluted, or vncleane.

¹⁵And the voyce spake vnto him againe the second time, The things that God hath purified, pollute thou not.

¹⁶This was so done thrise: and the vessell was drawen vp againe into heauen.

¹⁷Nowe while Peter douted in himselfe what this vision which he had seene, meant, beholde, the men which were sent from Cornelius, had inquired for Simons house, and stoode at the gate,

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

¹⁹And while Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit sayde vnto him, Beholde, three men seeke thee.

²⁰Arise therefore, and get thee downe, and goe with them, and doute nothing: For I haue sent them.

²¹Then Peter went downe to the men, which were sent vnto him from Cornelius, and sayd, Beholde, I am he whome ye seeke: what is the cause wherefore ye are come?

²²And they sayd, Cornelius the captaine, a iust man, and one that feareth God, and of good report among all the nation of the Iewes, was warned from heauen by an holy Angel, to send for thee into his house, and to heare thy wordes.

²³Then called he them in, and lodged them, and the next day, Peter went foorth with them, and certaine brethren from Ioppa accompanied him.

²⁴And the day after, they entred into Cesarea. Nowe Cornelius waited for them, and had called together his kinsemen, and special friends.

²⁵And it came to passe as Peter came in, that Cornelius met him, and fell downe at his feete, and worshipped him.

²⁶But Peter tooke him vp, saying, Stand vp: for euen I my selfe am a man.

²⁷And as he talked with him, he came in, and found many that were come together.

²⁸And he sayd vnto them, Ye know that it is an vnlawfull thing for a man that is a Iewe, to company, or come vnto one of another nation: but God hath shewed me, that I should not call any man polluted, or vncleane.