Acts 11:6-16

⁶I looked inside it and saw all kinds of animals, and lizards, and snakes, and birds.

⁷Then I heard a voice say to me, ‘Get up Peter. Kill some of those animals and eat them.’

⁸But I said, ‘No, boss. I will not. Our law says we can’t eat that kind of animal. They are no good, so I never eat any of them.’

⁹Then I heard that voice from heaven again. It said, ‘If God says that something is good, don’t say it is no good.’

¹⁰That happened 3 times, and then that sheet and everything in it went back up into heaven.

¹¹Just then 3 men came to the house I was staying in. They came from Caesarea.

¹²The Holy Spirit told me, ‘Don’t worry, just go with those men.’ So I went with them, and these 6 other men here, they went with me too. We got there and went into a man’s house.

¹³That man told us that he saw an angel in his house. The angel said, ‘Simon Peter has a message for you, so send somebody to Joppa to get him. He will tell you the way God can save you, and your family, and everyone else in your house too.’

¹⁵I started talking to those people and then the Holy Spirit came into them. It was just like the first time that he came into us.

¹⁶And I remembered that our leader Jesus said, ‘John baptised people with water but God will baptise you with the Holy Spirit.’