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"While I was praying in the city of Joppa, I had a vision. I saw something coming down that looked like a large sheet being lowered by its four corners from heaven, and it stopped next to me.
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I looked closely inside and saw domesticated and wild animals, reptiles, and wild birds.
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Then I heard a voice saying to me, "Get up, Peter; kill and eat!'
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But I said, "Certainly not, Lord! No ritually unclean or defiled food has ever entered my mouth.'
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The voice spoke again from heaven, "Do not consider anything unclean that God has declared clean.'
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This happened three times, and finally the whole thing was drawn back up into heaven.
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At that very moment three men who had been sent to me from Caesarea arrived at the house where I was staying.
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The Spirit told me to go with them without hesitation. These six fellow believers from Joppa accompanied me to Caesarea, and we all went into the house of Cornelius.
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He told us how he had seen an angel standing in his house, who said to him, "Send someone to Joppa for a man whose full name is Simon Peter.
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He will speak words to you by which you and all your family will be saved.'
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And when I began to speak, the Holy Spirit came down on them just as on us at the beginning.