Acts 11:5-14

Devotionals, Articles, and Bible Study Resources on Acts 11:5-14

5“I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision of something like a large sheet being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came right down to me.
6I looked at it closely and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, reptiles, and birds of the air.
7Then I heard a voice saying to me, ‘Get up, Peter, kill and eat.’
8‘No, Lord,’ I said, ‘for nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’
9But the voice spoke from heaven a second time, ‘Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.’
10This happened three times, and everything was drawn back up into heaven.
11Just then three men sent to me from Caesarea stopped at the house where I was staying.
12The Spirit told me to accompany them without hesitation. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the man’s home.
13He told us how he had seen an angel standing in his house and saying, ‘Send to Joppa for Simon who is called Peter.
14He will convey to you a message by which you and all your household will be saved.’
— Acts 11:5-14

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