Acts 10:2-12

2 a devout man and ¹one who feared God with all his household, and ²gave many alms to the Jewish people and prayed to God continually *.

3 About * ³the ninth hour of the day he clearly saw ⁴in a vision ⁵an angel of God who had just come in and said to him, "Cornelius!"

4 And ⁶fixing his gaze on him and being much alarmed, he said, "What is it, Lord?" And he said to him, "Your prayers and alms ⁷have ascended ⁸as a memorial before God.

5 "Now dispatch some men to ⁹Joppa and send for a man named Simon, who is also called Peter;

6 he is staying with a tanner named ¹⁰Simon, whose house is by the sea."

7 When the angel who was speaking to him had left, he summoned two of his servants and a devout soldier of those who were his personal attendants,

8 and after he had explained everything to them, he sent them to ¹¹Joppa.

9 On the next day, as they were on their way and approaching the city, ¹²Peter went up on ¹³the housetop about ¹⁴the sixth hour to pray.

10 But he became hungry and was desiring to eat; but while they were making preparations, he ¹⁵fell into a trance;

11 and he saw ¹⁶the 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.

Cross References

• 1. Acts 10:22, 35; Acts 13:16, 26
• 2. Luke 7:4
• 3. Acts 3:1
• 4. Acts 9:10; Acts 10:17, 19
• 5. Acts 5:19
• 6. Acts 3:4
• 7. Revelation 8:4
• 8. Matthew 26:13; Philippians 4:18; Hebrews 6:10
• 9. Acts 9:36
• 10. Acts 9:43
• 11. Acts 9:36
• 12. Acts 10:9-32; Acts 11:5-14
• 13. Jeremiah 19:13; Jeremiah 32:29; Zephaniah 1:5; Matthew 24:17
• 14. Psalms 55:17; Acts 10:3
• 15. Acts 11:5; Acts 22:17
• 16. John 1:51

Footnotes

• [a] Or "gifts of charity"
• [b] I.e. 3 p.m.
• [c] Or "deeds of charity"
• [d] Or "household slaves"
• [e] I.e. noon
• [f] Or "heaven"
• [g] Or "vessel"
• [h] Or "reptiles"
• [i] Or "heaven"