Acts 11:3-14

³on the ground that he had visited people who were not circumcised, and had taken meals with them.

⁴So Peter began to relate the facts to them as they had occurred.

⁵“I was in the town of Jaffa,” he said, “and was praying; and, while in a trance, I saw a vision. There was something like a great sail descending, let down by its four corners out of the heavens; and it came right down to me.

⁶Looking intently at it, I began to distinguish quadrupeds, wild beasts, reptiles, and birds;

⁷and I also heard a voice saying to me — ‘Stand up, Peter, kill something and eat.’

⁸‘No, Lord, I cannot,’ I answered, ‘for nothing defiled or unclean has ever passed my lips.’

⁹Then a second time there came a voice from the heavens. ‘What God has pronounced clean’, it said, ‘you must not call defiled.’

¹⁰This happened three times, and then all was drawn up again into the heavens.

¹¹At that moment three men, who had been sent from Caesarea to see me, came up to the house in which we were.

¹²The Spirit told me to go with them without hesitation. These six companions also went with me. And, when we came into the man's house,

¹³he told us how he had seen the angel standing in his house, and how the angel had said to him — ‘Send to Jaffa and fetch the Simon, who is also known as Peter;

¹⁴for he will tell you truths, which will prove the means of salvation to you and all your household.’