⁵“I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision.^w I saw something like a large sheet being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came down to where I was. ⁶I looked into it and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, reptiles and birds. ⁷Then I heard a voice telling me, ‘Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.’

⁸“I replied, ‘Surely not, Lord! Nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’

⁹“The voice spoke from heaven a second time, ‘Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.’^x ¹⁰This happened three times, and then it was all pulled up to heaven again.

¹¹“Right then three men who had been sent to me from Caesarea^y stopped at the house where I was staying. ¹²The Spirit told^z me to have no hesitation about going with them.^a These six brothers^b also went with me, and we entered the man’s house. ¹³He told us how he had seen an angel^c appear in his house and say, ‘Send to Joppa for Simon who is called Peter. ¹⁴He will bring you a message^d through which you and all your household^e will be saved.’

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Cross references

wSee Ac 9:10; 10:9–32
xSee Ac 10:15
ySee Ac 8:40
zSee Ac 8:29
a Ac 15:9; Ro 3:22
bver 1, 29; See Ac 1:16
cSee Ac 5:19
d Ac 10:36
e Jn 4:53; Ac 16:15, 31–34; 18:8; 1 Co 1:11, 16