Acts 10:9 References
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On the next day, as they were on their way and approaching the city, aPeter went up on bthe housetop about cthe sixth hour to pray.
a Acts 10:9-32, Acts 11:5-14
Acts 10
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On the next day, as they were on their way and approaching the city, aPeter went up on bthe housetop about cthe sixth hour to pray.
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But he became hungry and was desiring to eat; but while they were making preparations, he afell into a trance;
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and he saw athe sky opened up, and an object like a great sheet coming down, lowered by four corners to the ground,
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and there were in it all kinds of four-footed animals and crawling creatures of the earth and birds of the air.
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A voice came to him, "Get up, Peter, kill and eat!"
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This happened three times, and immediately the object was taken up into the sky.
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Now while Peter was greatly perplexed in mind as to what athe vision which he had seen might be, behold, bthe men who had been sent by Cornelius, having asked directions for Simon's house, appeared at the gate;
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and calling out, they were asking whether Simon, who was also called Peter, was staying there.
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While Peter was reflecting on athe vision, bthe Spirit said to him, "Behold, three men are looking for you.
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Peter went down to the men and said, "Behold, I am the one you are looking for; what is the reason for which you have come?"
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They said, "Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous and aGod-fearing man well spoken of by the entire nation of the Jews, bwas divinely directed by a choly angel to send for you to come to his house and hear da message from you."
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So he invited them in and gave them lodging.
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On the following day he entered aCaesarea. Now Cornelius was waiting for them and had called together his relatives and close friends.
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And he said to them, "You yourselves know how aunlawful it is for a man who is a Jew to associate with a foreigner or to visit him; and yet bGod has shown me that I should not call any man unholy or unclean.
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"That is why I came without even raising any objection when I was sent for. So I ask for what reason you have sent for me."
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Cornelius said, "aFour days ago to this hour, I was praying in my house during bthe ninth hour; and behold, ca man stood before me in shining garments,
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and he said, 'Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your alms have been remembered before God.
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'Therefore send to aJoppa and invite Simon, who is also called Peter, to come to you; he is staying at the house of Simon the tanner by the sea.'
Acts 11
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"aI was in the city of Joppa praying; and in a trance I saw ba vision, an object coming down like a great sheet lowered by four corners from the sky; and it came right down to me,
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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.
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"I also heard a voice saying to me, 'Get up, Peter; kill and eat.'
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"But I said, 'By no means, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered my mouth.'
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"But a voice from heaven answered a second time, 'aWhat God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy.'
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"This happened three times, and everything was drawn back up into the sky.
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"And behold, at that moment three men appeared at the house in which we were staying, having been sent to me from aCaesarea.
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"aThe Spirit told me to go with them bwithout misgivings. cThese six brethren also went with me and we entered the man's house.
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"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;