Acts 10:2-12

2 a devout man and one that feared God with all his house, who gave many alms to the people and prayed to God always.

3 He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him and saying unto him, Cornelius.

4 And when he looked on him, he was afraid and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms {lit. thine acts of mercy} are come up for a memorial before God.

5 And now send men to Joppa and call for one Simon, whose surname is Peter;

6 he lodges with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea side; he shall tell thee what it behooves thee to do.

7 And when the angel who spoke unto Cornelius was departed, he called two of his household servants and a devout soldier of those that waited on him continually;

8 and when he had declared all these things unto them, he sent them to Joppa.

9 On the morrow, as they went on their journey and drew near unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour;

10 and he became very hungry and would have eaten; but while they made ready, he fell into a rapture of understanding

11 and saw the heaven opened and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners and let down to the earth,

12 in which were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth and wild beasts and reptiles and fowls of the air.