Acts 10:15-17
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
15 The voice spoke to him again, a second time, “What God has made clean, you are not to call profane.”(A) 16 This happened three times, and then the object was taken up into the sky.
17 [a]While Peter was in doubt about the meaning of the vision he had seen, the men sent by Cornelius asked for Simon’s house and arrived at the entrance.
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- 10:17–23 The arrival of the Gentile emissaries with their account of the angelic apparition illuminates Peter’s vision: he is to be prepared to admit Gentiles, who were considered unclean like the animals of his vision, into the Christian community.
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