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So Peter, starting from the beginning, laid it out for them step-by-step:
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"Recently I was in the town of Joppa praying. I fell into a trance and saw a vision: Something like a huge blanket, lowered by ropes at its four corners, came down out of heaven and settled on the ground in front of me.
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Milling around on the blanket were farm animals, wild animals, reptiles, birds - you name it, it was there. Fascinated, I took it all in.
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"Then I heard a voice: 'Go to it, Peter - kill and eat.'
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I said, 'Oh, no, Master. I've never so much as tasted food that wasn't kosher.'
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The voice spoke again: 'If God says it's okay, it's okay.'
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This happened three times, and then the blanket was pulled back up into the sky.
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"Just then three men showed up at the house where I was staying, sent from Caesarea to get me.
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The Spirit told me to go with them, no questions asked. So I went with them, I and six friends, to the man who had sent for me.
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He told us how he had seen an angel right in his own house, real as his next-door neighbor, saying, 'Send to Joppa and get Simon, the one they call Peter.
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He'll tell you something that will save your life - in fact, you and everyone you care for.'