Acts 11:5–14

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.