Living_Oracles(i)
4 And Peter beginning, opened to them the matter in order, saying,
5 I was praying in the city of Joppa; and, in a trance, I saw a vision, something like a great sheet descending from heaven, let down by the four corners, and it came close to me:
6 and looking attentively upon it, I observed, and saw four-footed creatures of the earth, and wild beasts, and reptiles, and fowls of the air:
7 and I heard a voice saying to me, Arise, Peter, kill, and eat:
8 but I said, By no means, Lord; for nothing common or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.
9 And the voice answered me the second time from heaven, Those things which God has cleansed, do not you call common.
10 And this was done three times. And all the things were drawn up again into heaven.
11 And behold, at that instant, three men were come to the house in which I was, sent from Caesarea to me.
12 And the Spirit commanded me to go with them, without any scruple: and these six brethren also went along with me. And we entered into the man's house:
13 and he told us how he had seen a messenger standing in his house, and saying to him, Send to Joppa, and bring hither Simon, whose surname is Peter;
14 who shall speak words to you, by which you and all your family shall be saved.
15 And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, as on us at the beginning.
16 And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, John immersed in water; but you shall be immersed in the Holy Spirit.
17 Since, therefore, God gave to them the same gift as he did to us, who had believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, what was I, that I should be able to obstruct God?
18 And when they heard these things, they acquiesced, and glorified God; saying, God has, then, given to the Gentile also reformation to life.