⁹ 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. ¹⁰ Acts 10:10 But he became hungry and was desiring to eat; but while they were making preparations, he fell into a trance; ¹¹ 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, ¹² 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. ¹³ Acts 10:13 A voice came to him, “Get up, Peter, kill and eat!” ¹⁴ Acts 10:14 But Peter said, “By no means, Lord, for I have never eaten anything unholy and unclean.” ¹⁵ Acts 10:15 Again a voice came to him a second time, “What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy.” ¹⁶ Acts 10:16 This happened three times, and immediately the object was taken up into the sky. ¹⁷ 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; ¹⁸ Acts 10:18 and calling out, they were asking whether Simon, who was also called Peter, was staying there. ¹⁹ Acts 10:19 While Peter was reflecting on the vision, the Spirit said to him, “Behold, three men are looking for you. ²⁰ Acts 10:20 “But get up, go downstairs and accompany them without misgivings, for I have sent them Myself.” ²¹ 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?” ²² Acts 10:22 They said, “Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous and God-fearing man well spoken of by the entire nation of the Jews, was divinely directed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house and hear a message from you.” ²³ Acts 10:23 So he invited them in and gave them lodging. Peter at Caesarea And on the next day he got up and went away with them, and some of the brethren from Joppa accompanied him.