Acts 10:9-24 - Peter Has A Vision

⁹ The next day, while they were still on their way, and were just getting near the town, Peter went up on the housetop about noon to pray. ¹⁰ He got very hungry, and wanted something to eat. While they were getting it ready, he fell into a trance, ¹¹ and saw the sky opened and a thing like a great sheet coming down, lowered to the ground by the four corners, ¹² with all kinds of quadrupeds, reptiles, and wild birds in it. ¹³ And a voice came to him, "Get up, Peter! Kill something and eat it!"

¹⁴ But Peter said, "Never, sir! For I have never eaten anything that was not ceremonially cleansed."

¹⁵ The voice came to him again a second time, "Do not call what God has cleansed unclean." ¹⁶ This happened three times; then the thing was taken right up into the sky.

¹⁷ While Peter was still wondering what the vision he had had could mean, the men whom Cornelius had sent had asked the way to Simon's house and reached the door, ¹⁸ and they called out to ask if Simon who was called Peter was staying there.

¹⁹ As Peter was pondering over his vision, the Spirit said to him, "There are two men looking for you. ²⁰ Get up and go down, and go with them without any hesitation, for I have sent them."

²¹ Then Peter went down to see the men, and said to them, "I am the man you are asking for. What is the reason for your coming?"

²² They answered, "Cornelius, who is a captain, and an upright and God-fearing man, and who has a good reputation with the whole Jewish nation, was directed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house, and to listen to what you have to say." ²³ So Peter invited them in and entertained them. The next day he started off with them, accompanied by some of the brothers from Joppa, ²⁴ and the day after, he reached Caesarea. Cornelius had invited in his relatives and his intimate friends and was waiting for them.