Acts 10:17 Cross References - Goodspeed

¹⁷ While Peter was still wondering what the vision he had had could mean, the men whom Cornelius had sent had asked the way to Simon's house and reached the door,

¹² When he had washed their feet and put on his clothes and taken his place, he said to them again, "Do you understand what I have been doing to you?

¹² And they were all amazed and bewildered and said to one another, "What can this mean?"

²⁴ When the commander of the Temple and the high priests heard this report, they were very much at a loss as to what would come of it.

⁴³ So it came about that Peter stayed for some time in Joppa, at the house of a tanner named Simon.

³ One afternoon, about three o'clock, he had a vision, and distinctly saw an angel of God come into his room and say to him, "Cornelius!"

⁷ When the angel who had spoken to him was gone, Cornelius called two of his servants, and a devout soldier who was one of his personal attendants, ⁸ and after telling them the whole story, sent them to Joppa. ⁹ The next day, while they were still on their way, and were just getting near the town, Peter went up on the housetop about noon to pray. ¹⁰ He got very hungry, and wanted something to eat. While they were getting it ready, he fell into a trance, ¹¹ and saw the sky opened and a thing like a great sheet coming down, lowered to the ground by the four corners, ¹² with all kinds of quadrupeds, reptiles, and wild birds in it. ¹³ And a voice came to him, "Get up, Peter! Kill something and eat it!" ¹⁴ But Peter said, "Never, sir! For I have never eaten anything that was not ceremonially cleansed." ¹⁵ The voice came to him again a second time, "Do not call what God has cleansed unclean." ¹⁶ This happened three times; then the thing was taken right up into the sky. ¹⁷ While Peter was still wondering what the vision he had had could mean, the men whom Cornelius had sent had asked the way to Simon's house and reached the door, ¹⁸ and they called out to ask if Simon who was called Peter was staying there. ¹⁹ As Peter was pondering over his vision, the Spirit said to him, "There are two men looking for you.

²⁰ I was at a loss as to how to investigate such matters, and I asked him if he would like to go to Jerusalem and be tried on these charges there.

¹¹ trying to learn for what possible time the spirit of Christ within them in predicting the sufferings destined for Christ intended them and the glories that were to follow them.