³ While wide awake one afternoon he had a vision—it was about three o’clock—and in this vision he saw an angel of God coming toward him.

“Cornelius!” the angel said.

⁴ Cornelius stared at him in terror. “What do you want, sir?” he asked the angel.

And the angel replied, “Your prayers and charities have not gone unnoticed by God! ^5-6 Now send some men to Joppa to find a man named Simon Peter, who is staying with Simon, the tanner, down by the shore, and ask him to come and visit you.”

¹⁵ The voice spoke again, “Don’t contradict God! If he says something is kosher, then it is.”

²⁰ Go down and meet them and go with them. All is well, I have sent them.”

²⁸ Peter told them, “You know it is against the Jewish laws for me to come into a Gentile home like this. But God has shown me in a vision that I should never think of anyone as inferior.

³⁴ Then Peter replied, “I see very clearly that the Jews are not God’s only favorites!