Acts 10:9-16 ▼

9 And on the next day, as these are proceeding on the way, and are drawing near to the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray, about the sixth hour,

10 and he became very hungry, and wished to eat; and they making ready, there fell on him a trance,

11 and he beholds Heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending to him, as a great sheet, bound at the four corners, and let down on the earth,

12 in which were all the four-footed beasts of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the creeping things, and the birds of the sky,

13 and there came a voice to him: “Having risen, Peter, slay and eat.”

14 And Peter said, “Not so, Lord; because at no time did I eat anything common or unclean”;

15 and [there is] a voice again a second time to him: “What God cleansed, you do not declare common”;

16 and this was done three times, and again was the vessel received up to Heaven.