Acts 10:8-19

Riverside(i) 8 and, after explaining everything to them, sent them to Joppa. 9 On the next day, while they were on the road and approaching the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray. It was about noon. 10 He began to feel hungry and wished to eat. While they were preparing food, he fell into a trance 11 and saw the heavens opened and something descending like a great sheet being let down to the ground by the four corners. 12 In it were all kinds of fourfooted animals and reptiles and birds of the air. 13 Then a voice came to him, "Rise, Peter, kill and eat." 14 But Peter said, "By no means, Lord, for I have never eaten anything unclean or impure." 15 A second time the voice came to him, "What God has cleansed you must not think unclean." 16 This happened a third time, and then immediately the sheet was taken up into the heavens. 17 Peter was thinking this over and was at a loss what the vision meant. Just then the men who had been sent by Cornelius, after inquiring for the house of Simon, came to the door 18 and called to know whether Simon called Peter was a guest there. 19 While Peter was debating with himself about the vision, the Spirit said, "Here are two men looking for you.