Acts 11:5–14

⁵“I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision—an object something like a large sheet coming down, being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came to me. ⁶As I^* looked intently into it, I was considering it,^* and I saw the four-footed animals of the earth and the wild animals and the reptiles and the birds of the sky. ⁷And I also heard a voice saying to me, ‘Get up, Peter, slaughter and eat!’ ⁸But I said, ‘Certainly not, Lord! For nothing common or unclean has ever entered into my mouth!’ ⁹But the voice replied from heaven for the second time, ‘The things which God has made clean, you must not consider unclean!’ ¹⁰And this happened three times, and everything was pulled up into heaven again. ¹¹And behold, at once three men who had been sent to me from Caesarea approached the house in which we were staying.^{* 12}And the Spirit told me to accompany them, not hesitating at all. So these six brothers also went with me, and we entered into the man’s house. ¹³And he reported to us how he had seen the angel standing in his house and saying, ‘Send to Joppa and summon Simon, who is also called Peter, ¹⁴who will speak words to you by which you will be saved, you and all your household.’