Acts 11:2-18

2But when Peter went up to Jerusalem, those of the circumcision took issue with him,

3saying, “You went to uncircumcised men and ate with them!”

4So Peter began explaining to them point by point, saying,

5“I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision—something like a great sheet coming down, being lowered from heaven by its four corners, and it came right to me.

6I looked inside, considering it carefully, and saw four-footed creatures of the earth, wild animals, reptiles, and birds of the air.

7I also heard a voice saying, ‘Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.’

8“But I said, ‘Certainly not, Lord! For never has anything unholy or unclean entered my mouth.’

9But a voice from heaven answered a second time, ‘What God has made clean, you must not consider unholy.’

10This happened three times, and then everything was pulled up to heaven.

11“At that very moment, three men arrived at the house where we were, sent to me from Caesarea.

12The Ruach told me to go with them without hesitating. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the man’s house.

13He reported to us how he had seen an angel standing in his house and saying, ‘Send to Joppa and bring Simon called Peter.

14He will speak words to you by which you will be saved—you and all your household.’

15“As I began to speak, the Ruach ha-Kodesh fell on them, just as on us at the beginning.

16And I remembered the word of the Lord, how He used to say, ‘John immersed with water, but you will be immersed in the Ruach ha-Kodesh.’

17Therefore if God gave them the same gift as also to us after we put our trust in the Lord Messiah Yeshua, who was I to stand in God’s way?”

18When they heard this they became quiet, and they glorified God, saying, “Then even to the Gentiles God has granted repentance leading to life!”