Acts 10:5-15

5 "Now dispatch some men to ¹Joppa and send for a man named Simon, who is also called Peter;

6 he is staying with a tanner named ²Simon, 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 ³Joppa.

9 On the next day, as they were on their way and approaching the city, ⁴Peter went up on ⁵the housetop about ⁶the sixth hour to pray.

10 But he became hungry and was desiring to eat; but while they were making preparations, he ⁷fell into a trance;

11 and he saw ⁸the 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, ⁹Lord, for ¹⁰I have never eaten anything unholy and unclean."

15 Again a voice came to him a second time, "¹¹What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy."

Cross References

• 1. Acts 9:36
• 2. Acts 9:43
• 3. Acts 9:36
• 4. Acts 10:9-32; Acts 11:5-14
• 5. Jeremiah 19:13; Jeremiah 32:29; Zephaniah 1:5; Matthew 24:17
• 6. Psalms 55:17; Acts 10:3
• 7. Acts 11:5; Acts 22:17
• 8. John 1:51
• 9. Matthew 8:2f; John 4:11f; Acts 9:5; Acts 22:8
• 10. Leviticus 11:20-25; Deuteronomy 14:4-20; Ezekiel 4:14; Daniel 1:8; Acts 10:28
• 11. Matthew 15:11; Mark 7:19; Romans 14:14; 1 Corinthians 10:25f; 1 Timothy 4:4; Titus 1:15

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "household slaves"
• [b]. I.e. noon
• [c]. Or "heaven"
• [d]. Or "vessel"
• [e]. Or "reptiles"
• [f]. Or "heaven"
• [g]. Or "sacrifice"
• [h]. Or "profane;" lit "common"
• [i]. Lit "make common"