Acts 10:9-16 ▼

9 And on the next day, as they were on their way and approaching the city, Peter went up on the housetop about the sixth hour to pray.

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.