^{3 Ref} saying, "You went in to uncircumcised men, and ate with them!"

^{4 Ref} But Peter began, and explained to them in order, saying,

^{5 Ref} "I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision: a certain container descending, like it was a great sheet let down from heaven by four corners. It came as far as me.

^{6 Ref} When I had looked intently at it, I considered, and saw the four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky.

⁷ I also heard a voice saying to me, 'Rise, Peter, kill and eat!'

^{8 Ref} But I said, 'Not so, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.'

^{9 Ref} But a voice answered me the second time out of heaven, 'What God has cleansed, don't you call unclean.'

^{10 Ref} This was done three times, and all were drawn up again into heaven.

^{11 Ref} Behold, immediately three men stood before the house where I was, having been sent from Caesarea to me.

^{12 Ref} The Spirit told me to go with them, without discriminating. These six brothers also accompanied me, and we entered into the man's house.

^{13 Ref} He told us how he had seen the angel standing in his house, and saying to him, 'Send to Joppa, and get Simon, whose surname is Peter,

^{14 Ref} who will speak to you words by which you will be saved, you and all your house.'

^{15 Ref} As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, even as on us at the beginning.

^{16 Ref} I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, 'John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit.'

^{17 Ref} If then God gave to them the same gift as us, when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God?"

^{18 Ref} When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, "Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!"