Acts 11:5-16

⁵I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in an ecstasy I saw a vision, a certain vessel descending like a great sheet, let down by four corners out of heaven, and it came even to me:

⁶on which having fixed mine eyes, I considered, and saw the quadrupeds of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the creeping things, and the fowls of the heaven.

⁷And I heard also a voice saying to me, Rise up, Peter, slay and eat.

⁸And I said, In no wise, Lord, for common or unclean has never entered into my mouth.

⁹And a voice answered the second time out of heaven, What God has cleansed, do not thou make common.

¹⁰And this took place thrice, and again all was drawn up into heaven;

¹¹and lo, immediately three men were at the house in which I was, sent to me from Caesarea.

¹²And the Spirit said to me to go with them, nothing doubting. And there went with me these six brethren also, 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 fetch Simon, who is surnamed Peter,

¹⁴who shall speak words to thee whereby thou shalt be saved, thou and all thy house.

¹⁵And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them even as upon us also at the beginning.

¹⁶And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, John baptised with water, but ye shall be baptised with the Holy Spirit.