Acts 9:42 It became known all over Joppa, and many believed in the Lord.
Acts 10:2 a devout man and one who feared God with all his household, and gave many alms to the Jewish people and prayed to God continually.
Acts 10:3 About the ninth hour of the day he clearly saw in a vision an angel of God who had just come in and said to him, "Cornelius!"
Acts 10:4 And fixing his gaze on him and being much alarmed, he said, "What is it, Lord?" And he said to him, "Your prayers and alms have ascended as a memorial before God.
Acts 10:5 "Now dispatch some men to Joppa and send for a man named Simon, who is also called Peter;
Acts 10:6 he is staying with a tanner named Simon, whose house is by the sea."
Acts 10:7 When the angel who was speaking to him had left, he summoned two of his servants and a devout soldier of those who were his personal attendants,
Acts 10:8 and after he had explained everything to them, he sent them to Joppa.
Acts 10:9 ¶ On the next day, as they were on their way and approaching the city, Peter went up on the housetop about the sixth hour to pray.
Acts 10:10 But he became hungry and was desiring to eat; but while they were making preparations, he fell into a trance;
Acts 10:11 and he *saw the sky opened up, and an object like a great sheet coming down, lowered by four corners to the ground,
Acts 10:12 and there were in it all kinds of four-footed animals and crawling creatures of the earth and birds of the air.
Acts 10:13 A voice came to him, "Get up, Peter, kill and eat!"
Acts 10:14 But Peter said, "By no means, Lord, for I have never eaten anything unholy and unclean."
Acts 10:15 Again a voice came to him a second time, "What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy."
Acts 10:16 This happened three times, and immediately the object was taken up into the sky.
Acts 10:17 ¶ Now while Peter was greatly perplexed in mind as to what the vision which he had seen might be, behold, the men who had been sent by Cornelius, having asked directions for Simon's house, appeared at the gate;
Acts 10:18 and calling out, they were asking whether Simon, who was also called Peter, was staying there.
Acts 10:20 "But get up, go downstairs and accompany them without misgivings, for I have sent them Myself."
Acts 10:21 Peter went down to the men and said, "Behold, I am the one you are looking for; what is the reason for which you have come?"