Acts 10:1–16
1 Now there was a man at aCaesarea named Cornelius, a centurion of what was bcalled the Italian 1cohort,
2 a devout man and aone who feared God with all his household, and bgave many 1alms to the Jewish people and prayed to God continually.
3 About athe 1ninth hour of the day he clearly saw bin a vision can angel of God who had just come in and said to him, “Cornelius!”
4 And afixing his gaze on him and being much alarmed, he said, “What is it, Lord?” And he said to him, “Your prayers and 1alms bhave ascended cas a memorial before God.
5 “Now dispatch some men to aJoppa and send for a man named Simon, who is also called Peter;
6 he is staying with a tanner named aSimon, whose house is by the sea.”
7 When the angel who was speaking to him had left, he summoned two of his 1servants and a devout soldier of those who were his personal attendants,
8 and after he had explained everything to them, he sent them to aJoppa.
9 On the next day, as they were on their way and approaching the city, aPeter went up on bthe housetop about cthe 1sixth hour to pray.
10 But he became hungry and was desiring to eat; but while they were making preparations, he afell into a trance;
11 and he * saw athe 1sky opened up, and an 2object like a great sheet coming down, lowered by four corners to the ground,
12 and there were in it all kinds of four-footed animals and 1crawling creatures of the earth and birds of the 2air.
13 A voice came to him, “Get up, Peter, 1kill and eat!”
14 But Peter said, “By no means, aLord, for bI have never eaten anything 1unholy and unclean.”
15 Again a voice came to him a second time, “aWhat God has cleansed, no longer consider 1unholy.”
16 This happened three times, and immediately the 1object was taken up into the 2sky.