2. devout and fearing God together with all his household, doing many charitable deeds for the people and praying to God continually.
3. About the ninth hour of the day, he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God coming to him and saying to him, “Cornelius.”
4. And he stared at him and became terrified and said, “What is it, Lord?” And he said to him, “Your prayers and your charitable deeds have gone up for a memorial offering before God.
5. And now, send men to Joppa and summon a certain Simon, who is also called Peter.
6. This man is staying as a guest with a certain Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the sea.”
7. And when the angel who spoke to him departed, he summoned two of the household slaves and a devout soldier from those who attended him,
8. and after he had explained everything to them, he sent them to Joppa.
9. And the next day, as they were on their way and approaching the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray at about the sixth hour.
10. And he became hungry and wanted to eat. But while they were preparing the food, a trance came over him.
11. And he saw heaven opened and an object something like a large sheet coming down, being let down to the earth by its four corners,
12. in which were all the four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth and birds of the sky.