Acts 10:4-15

4Staring at him and becoming greatly afraid, Cornelius replied, “What is it, Lord?” The angel said to him, “Your prayers and your acts of charity have gone up as a memorial before God.

5Now send men to Joppa and summon a man named Simon, who is called Peter.

6This man is staying as a guest with a man named Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the sea.”

7When the angel who had spoken to him departed, Cornelius called two of his personal servants and a devout soldier from among those who served him,

8and when he had explained everything to them, he sent them to Joppa.

9About noon the next day, while they were on their way and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray.

10He became hungry and wanted to eat, but while they were preparing the meal, a trance came over him.

11He saw heaven opened and an object something like a large sheet descending, being let down to earth by its four corners.

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

13Then a voice said to him, “Get up, Peter; slaughter and eat!”

14But Peter said, “Certainly not, Lord, for I have never eaten anything defiled and ritually unclean!”

15The voice spoke to him again, a second time, “What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!”