5. Now send some men to Joppa, and summon a man named Simon Peter.
6. He is staying with Simon, a tanner who lives near the seashore.”
7. As soon as the angel was gone, Cornelius called two of his household servants and a devout soldier, one of his personal attendants.
8. He told them what had happened and sent them off to Joppa.
9. The next day as Cornelius’s messengers were nearing the town, Peter went up on the flat roof to pray. It was about noon,
10. and he was hungry. But while a meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance.
11. He saw the sky open, and something like a large sheet was let down by its four corners.
12. In the sheet were all sorts of animals, reptiles, and birds.
13. Then a voice said to him, “Get up, Peter; kill and eat them.”
14. “No, Lord,” Peter declared. “I have never eaten anything that our Jewish laws have declared impure and unclean.”
15. But the voice spoke again: “Do not call something unclean if God has made it clean.”
16. The same vision was repeated three times. Then the sheet was suddenly pulled up to heaven.
17. Peter was very perplexed. What could the vision mean? Just then the men sent by Cornelius found Simon’s house. Standing outside the gate,
18. they asked if a man named Simon Peter was staying there.
19. Meanwhile, as Peter was puzzling over the vision, the Holy Spirit said to him, “Three men have come looking for you.
20. Get up, go downstairs, and go with them without hesitation. Don’t worry, for I have sent them.”