Acts 10:6-23

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.