Acts 10:11-21

11 and he saw ¹the sky opened up, and an object like a great sheet coming down, lowered by four corners to the ground,

12 and there were in it all kinds of four-footed animals and crawling creatures of the earth and birds of the air.

13 A voice came to him, "Get up, Peter, kill and eat!"

14 But Peter said, "By no means, ²Lord, for ³I have never eaten anything unholy and unclean."

15 Again a voice came to him a second time, "⁴What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy."

16 This happened three times, and immediately the object was taken up into the sky.

17 Now while Peter was greatly perplexed in mind as to what ⁵the vision which he had seen might be, behold, ⁶the men who had been sent by Cornelius, having asked directions for Simon's house, appeared at the gate;

18 and calling out, they were asking whether Simon, who was also called Peter, was staying there.

19 While Peter was reflecting on ⁷the vision, ⁸the Spirit said to him, "Behold, three men are looking for you.

20 "But get up, go downstairs and ⁹accompany * them without misgivings, for I have sent them Myself."

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?"

Cross References

• 1. John 1:51
• 2. Matthew 8:2f; John 4:11f; Acts 9:5; Acts 22:8
• 3. Leviticus 11:20-25; Deuteronomy 14:4-20; Ezekiel 4:14; Daniel 1:8; Acts 10:28
• 4. Matthew 15:11; Mark 7:19; Romans 14:14; 1 Corinthians 10:25f; 1 Timothy 4:4; Titus 1:15
• 5. Acts 10:3
• 6. Acts 10:8
• 7. Acts 10:3
• 8. Acts 8:29
• 9. Acts 15:7-9

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "heaven"
• [b]. Or "vessel"
• [c]. Or "reptiles"
• [d]. Or "heaven"
• [e]. Or "sacrifice"
• [f]. Or "profane;" lit "common"
• [g]. Lit "make common"
• [h]. Or "vessel"
• [i]. Or "heaven"
• [j]. Lit "himself"
• [k]. One early ms reads "two"
• [l]. Lit "doubting nothing"