Living_Oracles(i)
8 and having related to them all these things, he sent them to Joppa.
9 On the next day, while they were on their journey, and drew near the city, Peter went up to the top of the house to pray, about the sixth hour.
10 And he was hungry, and would have taken a little refreshment; but while they were preparing, he fell into an ecstasy;
11 and he saw heaven opened, and something descending like a great sheet, fastened at the four corners, and let down to the earth:
12 in which there were all sorts of things, even four-footed animals of the earth, and wild beasts, and reptiles, and fowls of the air.
13 And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter, kill, and eat.
14 But Peter said, By no means, Lord; for I have never eat anything which is common or unclean.
15 And the voice said to him again, the second time, Those things which God has cleansed, do not you call common.
16 And this was done three times, and the sheet was taken up again into heaven.
17 While Peter was pondering in himself, what the vision, which he had seen, might import; behold, the men, who were sent from Cornelius, having inquired out the house of Simon, stood at the door;
18 and calling, they asked, if Simon, whose surname was Peter, lodged there.
19 Now, as Peter was reflecting on this vision; the Spirit said to him, Behold, three men are inquiring for you: