Acts 10:10-17 ▼

10 But he became hungry and was desiring to eat. And while they were making preparations, he fell into a trance

11 and saw heaven opened up, and an object like a great sheet coming down, lowered by four corners to the ground,

12 and there were in it all kinds of four-footed animals and crawling creatures of the earth and birds of the sky.

13 And a voice came to him, “Rise up, Peter, slaughter and eat!”

14 But Peter said, “By no means, Lord, for I have never eaten anything defiled and unclean.”

15 Again a voice came to him a second time, “What God has cleansed, no longer consider defiled.”

16 And this happened three times and immediately the object was taken up into heaven.

17 Now while Peter was greatly perplexed in mind as to what the vision which he had seen might be, behold, the men who had been sent by Cornelius, having asked directions for Simon’s house, appeared at the gate;