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`I was in the city of Joppa praying, and I saw in a trance a vision, a certain vessel coming down, as a great sheet by four corners being let down out of the heaven, and it came unto me;
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at which having looked stedfastly, I was considering, and I saw the four-footed beasts of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the creeping things, and the fowls of heaven;
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and I heard a voice saying to me, Having risen, Peter, slay and eat;
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and I said, Not so, Lord; because anything common or unclean hath at no time entered into my mouth;
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and a voice did answer me a second time out of the heaven, What God did cleanse, thou -- declare not thou common.
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`And this happened thrice, and again was all drawn up to the heaven,
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and, lo, immediately, three men stood at the house in which I was, having been sent from Cesarea unto me,
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and the Spirit said to me to go with them, nothing doubting, and these six brethren also went with me, and we did enter into the house of the man,
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he declared also to us how he saw the messenger in his house standing, and saying to him, Send men to Joppa, and call for Simon, who is surnamed Peter,
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who shall speak sayings by which thou shalt be saved, thou and all thy house.
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`And in my beginning to speak, the Holy Spirit did fall upon them, even as also upon us in the beginning,