Acts 10:9-24 - Peter Has A Vision

⁹ The next day, while they were still on their way and were approaching the town, about noon, Peter went up to the housetop to pray. ¹⁰ He had become very hungry and longed for food; but while they were preparing it, he fell into a trance. ¹¹ He beheld the sky opened, and a vessel descending like an enormous sail let down to earth by four corners. ¹² In it were all kinds of quadrupeds and creeping things of the earth, and wild birds. ¹³ A voice came to him, saying, "Rise, Peter, kill and eat."

¹⁴ "Not so, my Lord," answered Peter, "for I have never yet eaten anything common and unclean."

¹⁵ And again a second time came to him a voice, saying, "What God has cleansed you must not call common." ¹⁶ This happened three times; and immediately the sail was drawn up into the sky.

¹⁷ Now while Peter was greatly perplexed to know what the vision which he had been sent by Cornelius, and had made inquiries for the house of Simon, stood at the gate, ¹⁸ and called and asked whether Simon who was called Peter was lodging there.

¹⁹ So the Spirit said to Peter, who was still pondering over the vision. ²⁰ "Three men are now looking for you. Rise, go down and go with them, nothing doubting; for it is I who have sent them."

²¹ So Peter went down to the men and said: "I am the man you are looking for. What is the reason of your coming?"

²² "Cornelius," they answered, "a captain, a devout man, and God-fearing, of whom the whole, Jewish nation speaks well, was instructed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house, and to listen to your message." ²³ So he invited them in and gave them lodging. The next day he rose, and went off with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa accompanied them; ²⁴ and the day after that they reached Caesarea. There Cornelius was waiting for them, and had brought together all his relatives and intimate friends.