“The words were not those of the prudent Peter but of the Spirit. And in his defense he showed God as the absolute author and himself as the author of nothing. He said what he did in his ecstasy, "I was in the city of Joppa, and he showed the vessel, as I have said before; and again he said and I did not hear. The Spir…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — CATENA ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 11.4
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4But Peter rehearsed the matter from the beginning, and expounded it by order unto them, saying,
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2And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that were of the circumcision contended with him,
3Saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them.
— Acts 11:4 —
5I was in the city of Joppa praying: and in a trance I saw a vision, A certain vessel descend, as it had been a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners; and it came even to me:
6Upon the which when I had fastened mine eyes, I considered, and saw fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.