4. He looked intently at him and, seized with fear, said, “What is it, sir?” He said to him, “Your prayers and almsgiving have ascended as a memorial offering before God.
5. Now send some men to Joppa and summon one Simon who is called Peter.
6. He is staying with another Simon, a tanner, who has a house by the sea.”
7. When the angel who spoke to him had left, he called two of his servants and a devout soldier from his staff,
8. explained everything to them, and sent them to Joppa.
9. The next day, while they were on their way and nearing the city, Peter went up to the roof terrace to pray at about noontime.
10. He was hungry and wished to eat, and while they were making preparations he fell into a trance.
11. He saw heaven opened and something resembling a large sheet coming down, lowered to the ground by its four corners.
12. In it were all the earth’s four-legged animals and reptiles and the birds of the sky.
13. A voice said to him, “Get up, Peter. Slaughter and eat.”
14. But Peter said, “Certainly not, sir. For never have I eaten anything profane and unclean.”
15. The voice spoke to him again, a second time, “What God has made clean, you are not to call profane.”
16. This happened three times, and then the object was taken up into the sky.
17. While Peter was in doubt about the meaning of the vision he had seen, the men sent by Cornelius asked for Simon’s house and arrived at the entrance.