Acts 10:9-22

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!”

¹⁴But Peter said: “No way, Lord! Never have I eaten anything ‘common’ or unclean!”

¹⁵So the voice came to him a second time, “What (pl) God has made clean you must not call ‘common’!”

¹⁶Well this happened three times, and then the object was taken back up into the sky.

¹⁷Now as Peter was really perplexed within himself as to what the vision that he had seen might mean, well the men who had been sent by Cornelius, having inquired and found Simon's house, stood before the gate,

¹⁸and calling out they inquired whether Simon, who was surnamed Peter, was staying there as a guest.

¹⁹So as Peter was pondering the vision the Spirit said to him: “Listen, some men are looking for you;

²⁰so get up and go downstairs; and go with them, doubting nothing, for I have sent them.”

²¹So going down to the men Peter said: “Yes, I am the one you are looking for. For what reason have you come?”

²²So they said: “Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous and God-fearing man, well spoken of by all the nation of the Jews, was divinely instructed by an angel to summon you to his house, and to hear words from you.”