41. He gave her his hand, lifted it up, and calling the saints and widows, he set it before them alive.

42. This became known throughout Joppa, and many believed in the Lord.

43. And he stayed quite a few days in Joppa with a certain Simon the tanner.

Chapter 10

1. There was a certain man in Caesarea, named Cornelius, a centurion of the regiment called the Italians,

2. pious and God-fearing with all his household, doing much alms to the people, and always praying to God.

3. In a vision he clearly saw about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God, who came to him and said to him, "Cornelius!

4. And he looked at him and was afraid, and said, "What, Lord? The angel answered him, "Thy prayers and thy alms have come as a remembrance before God."

5. So send men to Joppa, and call for Simon, who is called Peter.

6. He is staying with a certain Simon the tanner, whose house is by the sea; He will tell you the words by which you and all your household will be saved.

7. When the angel who had spoken to Cornelius had departed, he called two of his servants and a pious soldier from among those who were with him

8. and when he had told them all things, he sent them to Joppa.

9. The next day, as they walked and approached the city, Peter went up to the top of the house to pray about the sixth hour.

10. And he felt hungry and wanted to eat. While they were being prepared, he fell into a frenzy

11. And he sees the heaven opened, and a vessel descending to it, like a great cloth, tied at the four corners and lowered to the earth;

12. In it were all four-footed creatures of the earth, beasts, creeping things, and birds of the air.

13. And a voice came to him, "Get up, Peter, kill and eat."

14. But Peter said, "No, Lord, I have never eaten anything filthy or unclean."

15. Then another time a voice came to him, "What God has cleansed, do not consider unclean."

16. This happened three times; And the vessel went up to heaven again.

17. And when Peter was perplexed in himself what the vision he had seen would mean, behold, the men sent by Cornelius, having inquired about Simon's house, stopped at the gate,