Acts 10:10-17 ▼

10 He became very hungry and wanted to eat, and while the food was being prepared, he fell into a trance

11 and saw heaven open and something like a large linen sheet coming down, being lowered by its four corners to the ground.

12 In it were all kinds of four-footed animals, reptiles, and birds of the air.

13 Then a voice told him, |Get up, Peter! Kill something and eat it.|

14 But Peter said, |Absolutely not, Lord, for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean!|

15 Again the voice came to him a second time, |You must stop calling unclean what God has made clean.|

16 This happened three times. Then the sheet was quickly taken back into heaven.

17 While Peter was still at a loss to know what the vision he had seen could mean, the men sent by Cornelius asked for Simon's house and went to the gate.