⁵‘I was in the city of Joppa praying, and I saw in a trance a vision, a certain vessel coming down, as a great sheet by four corners being let down out of the heaven, and it came unto me; ⁶at which having looked stedfastly, I was considering, and I saw the four-footed beasts of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the creeping things, and the fowls of heaven; ⁷and I heard a voice saying to me, Having risen, Peter, slay and eat; ⁸and I said, Not so, Lord; because anything common or unclean hath at no time entered into my mouth; ⁹and a voice did answer me a second time out of the heaven, What God did cleanse, thou—declare not thou common.

¹⁰‘And this happened thrice, and again was all drawn up to the heaven, ¹¹and, lo, immediately, three men stood at the house in which I was, having been sent from Caesarea unto me, ¹²and the Spirit said to me to go with them, nothing doubting, and these six brethren also went with me, and we did enter into the house of the man, ¹³he declared also to us how he saw the messenger in his house standing, and saying to him, Send men to Joppa, and call for Simon, who is surnamed Peter, ¹⁴who shall speak sayings by which thou shalt be saved, thou and all thy house.

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