Acts 10:9-16 ▼

9 And on the morrow, as these are proceeding on the way, and are drawing nigh to the city, Peter went up upon the house-top to pray, about the sixth hour,

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

11 and he doth behold the heaven opened, and descending unto him a certain vessel, as a great sheet, bound at the four corners, and let down upon the earth,

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

13 and there came a voice unto 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 unto him: 'What God did cleanse, thou, declare not thou common;'

16 and this was done thrice, and again was the vessel received up to the heaven.