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Acts 10:9-19
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The next day as Cornelius’s messengers were nearing the town, Peter went up on the flat roof to pray. It was about noon,
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and he was hungry. But while a meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance.
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He saw the sky open, and something like a large sheet was let down by its four corners.
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In the sheet were all sorts of animals, reptiles, and birds.
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Then a voice said to him, “Get up, Peter; kill and eat them.”
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“No, Lord,” Peter declared. “I have never eaten anything that our Jewish laws have declared impure and unclean. ”
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But the voice spoke again: “Do not call something unclean if God has made it clean.”
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The same vision was repeated three times. Then the sheet was suddenly pulled up to heaven.
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Peter was very perplexed. What could the vision mean? Just then the men sent by Cornelius found Simon’s house. Standing outside the gate,
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they asked if a man named Simon Peter was staying there.
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Meanwhile, as Peter was puzzling over the vision, the Holy Spirit said to him, “Three men have come looking for you.
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[a].
Greek anything common and unclean.
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