Acts 11:4-18

⁴ But Peter began speaking and proceeded to explain to them in orderly sequence , saying , ⁵ " I was in the city of Joppa praying ; and in a trance I saw a vision , an object coming down like a great sheet lowered by four corners from the sky ; and it came right down to me, ⁶ and when I had fixed my gaze on it and was observing it I saw the four-footed animals of the earth and the wild beasts and the crawling creatures and the birds of the air . ⁷ "I also heard a voice saying to me, 'Get up, Peter ; kill and eat .' ⁸ "But I said , 'By no means , Lord , for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered my mouth .' ⁹ "But a voice from heaven answered a second time , ' What God has cleansed , no longer consider unholy .' ¹⁰ "This happened three times , and everything was drawn back up into the sky . ¹¹ "And behold , at that moment three men appeared at the house in which we were staying, having been sent to me from Caesarea . ¹² " The Spirit told me to go with them without misgivings . These six brethren also went with me and we entered the man's house . ¹³ "And he reported to us how he had seen the angel standing in his house , and saying , 'Send to Joppa and have Simon , who is also called Peter , brought here ; ¹⁴ and he will speak words to you by which you will be saved , you and all your household .' ¹⁵ "And as I began to speak , the Holy Spirit fell upon them just as He did upon us at the beginning . ¹⁶ "And I remembered the word of the Lord , how He used to say , ' John baptized with water , but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit .' ¹⁷ "Therefore if God gave to them the same gift as He gave to us also after believing in the Lord Jesus Christ , who was I that I could stand in God's way ?" ¹⁸ When they heard this , they quieted down and glorified God , saying , "Well then , God has granted to the Gentiles also the repentance that leads to life ."