Acts 11:1-15

¹Now the Apostles and the brothers throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.

²When Peter went up to Jerusalem, those of the circumcision party started contending with him,

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

⁴So Peter began by explaining it to them in order, saying:

⁵“I was in the town of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision: a certain object like a great sheet coming down out of the sky, being lowered by its four corners; and it came to me.

⁶Upon peering into it I observed and distinguished the quadrupeds of the earth—both the wild animals and the reptiles—and the birds of the sky.

⁷Then I heard a voice saying to me, ‘Get up, Peter, slaughter and eat!’

⁸So I said: ‘No way, Lord! Never has anything ‘common’ or unclean entered my mouth!’

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

¹⁰Well this was done three times, and it was all pulled back up into the sky.

¹¹At that very moment three men stopped in front of the house where I was, having been sent from Caesarea to me.

¹²The Spirit told me to go with them, doubting nothing. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the man's house.

¹³He then related to us how he had seen the angel standing in his house and saying to him, ‘Send to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter,

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

¹⁵Well as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, just as on us at the beginning.