Acts 11:4-18

⁴But Peter started to explain the matter to them in detail; he said,

⁵I was praying in the city of Joppa, and I had a vision of a container coming down, like a large sheet let down from heaven by its four corners. It descended to me.

⁶I gazed at it and I thought about it. I saw the four-legged animals of earth, wild beasts, creeping animals, and birds of the sky.

⁷Then I heard a voice say to me, “Get up, Peter; kill and eat!”

⁸I said, “Not so, Lord; for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.”

⁹But the voice answered again from heaven, “What God has declared clean, do not call unclean.”

¹⁰This happened three times, and then everything was taken back up into heaven again.

¹¹Behold, right away there were three men standing in front of the house where we were; they had been sent from Caesarea to me.

¹²The Spirit commanded me to go with them, and that I should make no distinction regarding them. These six brothers went with me, and we went into the man's house.

¹³He told us how he had seen the angel standing in his house and saying, “Send men to Joppa and bring back Simon who is called Peter.

¹⁴He will speak to you a message by which you will be saved—you and all your household.”

¹⁵As I began to speak to them, the Holy Spirit came on them, just as on us in the beginning.

¹⁶I remembered the words of the Lord, how he said, “John indeed baptized with water; but you shall be baptized in the Holy Spirit.”

¹⁷Then if God gave to them the same gift as he gave to us when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could oppose God?”

¹⁸When they heard these things, they said nothing in response, but they praised God and said, “Then God has given repentance for life to the Gentiles also.”