Peter was still trying to understand what the vision meant, when the Spirit said, "Listen! Three men are here looking for you.

Amazed and confused, they kept asking each other, "What does this mean?"

When the chief priests and the officer in charge of the Temple guards heard this, they wondered what had happened to the apostles.

I was undecided about how I could get information on these matters, so I asked Paul if he would be willing to go to Jerusalem and be tried there on these charges.

After Jesus had washed their feet, he put his outer garment back on and returned to his place at the table. "Do you understand what I have just done to you?" he asked.

They tried to find out when the time would be and how it would come. This was the time to which Christ's Spirit in them was pointing, in predicting the sufferings that Christ would have to endure and the glory that would follow.

Then the angel went away, and Cornelius called two of his house servants and a soldier, a religious man who was one of his personal attendants.

The next day, as they were on their way and coming near Joppa, Peter went up on the roof of the house about noon in order to pray.

He saw heaven opened and something coming down that looked like a large sheet being lowered by its four corners to the earth.

A voice said to him, "Get up, Peter; kill and eat!"

The voice spoke to him again, "Do not consider anything unclean that God has declared clean."

While Peter was wondering about the meaning of this vision, the men sent by Cornelius had learned where Simon's house was, and they were now standing in front of the gate.

Peter stayed on in Joppa for many days with a tanner of leather named Simon.