⁵ “^(A)I was in the city of Joppa praying; and in a trance I saw ^(B)a vision, an ^[a]object coming down like a great sheet lowered by four corners from the sky; and it came to where I was, ⁶ and I stared at it and was thinking about it, and I saw the four-footed animals of the earth, the wild animals, the ^[b]crawling creatures, and the birds of the sky. ⁷ I also heard a voice saying to me, ‘Get up, Peter; ^[c]kill and eat.’ ⁸ But I said, ‘By no means, Lord, for nothing ^[d]unholy or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’ ⁹ But a voice from heaven answered a second time, ‘^(C)What God has cleansed, no longer ^[e]consider unholy.’ ¹⁰ This happened three times, and everything was drawn back up into the sky. ¹¹ And behold, at that moment three men who had been sent to me from ^(D)Caesarea came up to the house where we were staying. ^12 (E)And the Spirit told me to go with them ^(F)without ^[f]misgivings. ^(G)These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the man’s house. ¹³ And he reported to us how he had seen the angel ^[g]standing in his house, and saying, ‘Send some men to Joppa and have Simon, who is also called Peter, brought here; ¹⁴ and he will speak ^(H)words to you by which you will be saved, you and ^(I)all your household.’ ¹⁵ And as I began to speak, ^(J)the Holy Spirit fell upon them just ^(K)as He did upon us at the beginning. ¹⁶ And I remembered the word of the Lord, how He used to say, ‘^(L)John baptized with water, but you will be baptized ^[h]with the Holy Spirit.’ ¹⁷ Therefore, if ^(M)God gave them the same gift as He also gave to us after believing in the Lord Jesus Christ, ^(N)who was I that I could ^[i]stand in God’s way?” ¹⁸ When they heard this, they ^[j]quieted down and ^(O)glorified God, saying, “Well then, God has also granted to the Gentiles the ^(P)repentance that leads to life.”