Acts 10:9-16 ▼

9 The next day, as they were traveling and nearing the city, Peter went up to pray on the housetop about noon .

10 Then he became hungry and wanted to eat, but while they were preparing something, he went into a visionary state.

11 He saw heaven opened and an object that resembled a large sheet coming down, being lowered by its four corners to the earth.

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

13 Then a voice said to him, “Get up, Peter; kill and eat! ”

14 “ No, Lord ! ” Peter said. “ For I have never eaten anything common and ritually unclean! ”

15 Again, a second time, a voice said to him, “What God has made clean, you must not call common.”

16 This happened three times, and then the object was taken up into heaven.