Acts 10:5-18

5Now send men to Joppa and call for Simon, who is also named Peter.

6He is lodging with Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the sea.”

7When the angel who spoke to him had gone, he called two of his household servants and a devout soldier, who was one of those who attended him.

8After explaining everything to them, he sent them to Joppa.

9The next day, as they were traveling and nearing the city, Peter went up to pray on the roof about noon.

10He became hungry and wanted to eat, but while they were preparing something, he fell into a trance.

11He saw heaven opened and an object that resembled a large sheet coming down, being lowered by its four corners to the earth.

12In it were all the four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth, and the birds of the sky.

13A voice said to him, “Get up, Peter; kill and eat.”

14“No, Lord!” Peter said. “For I have never eaten anything impure and ritually unclean.”

15Again, a second time, the voice said to him, “What God has made clean, do not call impure.”

16This happened three times, and suddenly the object was taken up into heaven.

17While Peter was deeply perplexed about what the vision he had seen might mean, right away the men who had been sent by Cornelius, having asked directions to Simon’s house, stood at the gate.

18They called out, asking if Simon, who was also named Peter, was lodging there.