Acts 10:1–23

Cornelius’ and Peter’s Visions

¹Now there was a man at ^aCaesarea named Cornelius, a centurion of what was ^bcalled the Italian ¹cohort,

²a devout man and ^aone who feared God with all his household, and ^bgave many ¹alms to the people and prayed to God continually.

³About ^athe ¹ninth hour of the day he clearly saw ^bin a vision ^can angel of God who had come in and said to him, “Cornelius!”

⁴And ^alooking intently on him and becoming afraid, he said, “What is it, Lord?” And he said to him, “Your prayers and ¹alms ^bhave ascended ^cas a memorial before God.

⁵“Now send some men to ^aJoppa and summon a man named Simon, who is also called Peter;

⁶he is lodging with a tanner named ^aSimon, whose house is by the sea.”

⁷And when the angel who was speaking to him had left, he called two of his servants and a devout soldier of those who were his personal attendants,

⁸and after he explained everything to them, he sent them to ^aJoppa.

⁹And on the next day, as they were on their way and approaching the city, ^aPeter went up on ^bthe housetop about ^cthe ¹sixth hour to pray.

¹⁰But he became hungry and was desiring to eat. And while they were making preparations, he ^afell into a trance

¹¹and ^*saw ^aheaven opened up, and ¹an object like a great sheet coming down, lowered by four corners to the ground,

¹²and there were in it all kinds of four-footed animals and crawling creatures of the earth and birds of the ¹sky.

¹³And a voice came to him, “Rise up, Peter, ¹slaughter and eat!”

¹⁴But Peter said, “By no means, ^aLord, for ^bI have never eaten anything defiled and unclean.”

¹⁵Again a voice came to him a second time, “^aWhat God has cleansed, no longer consider defiled.”

¹⁶And this happened three times and immediately the ¹object was taken up into heaven.

¹⁷Now while Peter was greatly perplexed in ¹mind as to what ^athe vision which he had seen might be, behold, ^bthe men who had been sent by Cornelius, having asked directions for Simon’s house, appeared at the gate;

¹⁸and calling out, they were asking whether Simon, who was also called Peter, was lodging there.

¹⁹And while Peter was reflecting on ^athe vision, ^bthe Spirit said to him, “Behold, ¹three men are looking for you.

²⁰“But rise up, go down and ^aaccompany them without taking issue at all, for I have sent them Myself.”

²¹And Peter went down to the men and said, “Behold, I am the one you are looking for; what is the reason for which you have come?”

²²And they said, “Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous and ^aGod-fearing man well spoken of by the entire nation of the Jews, ^bwas directed by a ^choly angel to summon you to his house and hear ^1da message from you.”

²³So he invited them in and gave them lodging.

Peter at Caesarea

And on the next day he rose up and went away with them, and ^asome of ^bthe brothers from ^cJoppa went with him.