Acts 11:5–14

⁵“^aI was in the city of Joppa praying; and in a trance I saw ^ba vision, an ¹object coming down like a great sheet lowered by four corners from ²the sky; and it came right down to me,

⁶and when I had fixed my gaze on it and was observing it ¹I saw the four-footed animals of the earth and the wild beasts and the ²crawling creatures and the birds of the ³air.

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

⁸“But I said, ‘By no means, Lord, for nothing ¹unholy or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’

⁹“But a voice from heaven answered a second time, ‘^aWhat God has cleansed, no longer ¹consider unholy.’

¹⁰“This happened three times, and everything was drawn back up into ¹the sky.

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

¹²“^aThe Spirit told me to go with them ^1bwithout misgivings. ^cThese six brethren 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 have Simon, who is also called Peter, brought here;

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