Deeds (Act) of Apostles 11:2-14

²But when Peter came to Jerusalem, they that were of circumcision, disputed against him,

³and said, Why enteredest thou to men that have prepuce, and hast eaten with them?

⁴And Peter began, and expounded to them by order, and said,

⁵I was in the city of Joppa, and prayed, and I saw in ravishing of my mind or in excess of my soul a vision, that a vessel came down, as a great sheet with four cords or with four corners, and was sent down from heaven; and it came to me.

⁶Into which I looking beheld, and saw four-footed beasts of the earth, and beasts, and creeping beasts, and volatiles of heaven or of the air.

⁷And I heard also a voice that said to me, Peter, rise thou, and slay, and eat.

⁸But I said, Nay, Lord; for common thing either unclean entered never into my mouth.

⁹And the voice answered the second time from heaven, That thing that God hath cleansed, say thou not unclean.

¹⁰And this was done by thrice, and all things were received again into heaven.

¹¹And lo! three men anon stood in the house, in which I was; and they were sent from Caesarea to me.

¹²And the Spirit said to me, that I should go with them, and doubt nothing. Yea, and these six brethren came with me, and we entered into the house of the man.

¹³And he told to us, how he saw an angel in his house, standing and saying to him, Send thou into Joppa, and call Simon, that is named Peter,

¹⁴which shall speak to thee words, in which thou shalt be safe, and all thine house.