Acts 11:1-15

¹Now the apostles and the brothers who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.

²And when Peter came up to Jerusalem, those of the circumcision were contending with him,

³saying, “You went in to uncircumcised men and ate with them!”

⁴But Peter, beginning to speak, was setting forth to them in order, saying,

⁵“I was in the city of Joppa praying; and in a trance I saw a vision, a certain vessel coming down like a great sheet, being lowered by the four corners from heaven; and it came as far as me;

⁶on which, looking intently, I was contemplating, and I saw the four-footed animals of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the reptiles, and the birds of the air.

⁷And I heard a voice saying to me, ‘Arise, Peter; kill and eat.’

⁸But I said, ‘By no means, Lord! For nothing common or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.’

⁹But the voice answered me a second time from heaven, ‘What God has made clean, you must not make common.’

¹⁰And this was done three times, and again all things were drawn up into heaven.

¹¹And behold, immediately three men stood before the house in which I was, having been sent from Caesarea to me.

¹²And the Spirit told me to go with them, without wavering. Now these six brothers also went with me, and we entered into the house of the man.

¹³And he related to us how he had seen the angel in his house, standing and saying to him, ‘Send men to Joppa, and send for Simon whose surname is Peter,

¹⁴who will speak words to you by which you and all your household shall be saved.’

¹⁵And when I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, as also on us in the beginning.