Acts 11:5–14

⁵“^aI was in the city of Joppa praying; and in a trance I saw ^ba vision, ¹an object coming down like a great sheet lowered by four corners from heaven, and it came right down to me,

⁶and when looking closely at it, I was observing it and saw the four-footed animals of the earth and the wild beasts and the crawling creatures and the birds of the ¹sky.

⁷“And I also heard a voice saying to me, ‘Rise up, Peter; ¹slaughter and eat.’

⁸“But I said, ‘By no means, Lord, for nothing defiled or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’

⁹“But a voice from heaven answered a second time, ‘^aWhat God has cleansed, no longer consider defiled.’

¹⁰“And this happened three times, and everything was drawn back up into heaven.

¹¹“And behold, immediately three men appeared at the house in which we were, having been sent to me from ^aCaesarea.

¹²“^aAnd the Spirit told me to go with them ^1bwithout taking issue at all. ^cThese six brothers also went with me and we entered the man’s house.

¹³“And he reported to us how he had seen the angel ¹standing in his house, and saying, ‘Send to Joppa and summon Simon, who is also called Peter;

¹⁴and he will speak ^awords to you by which you will be saved, you and ^ball your household.’