Acts 11:1-10 ▼

1 The apostles and the brothers and sisters who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.

2 When Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcision party criticized him,

3 saying, “You went to uncircumcised men and ate with them.”

4 Peter began to explain to them step by step,

5 “I was in the town of Joppa praying, and I saw, in a trance, an object that resembled a large sheet coming down, being lowered by its four corners from heaven, and it came to me.

6 When I looked closely and considered it, I saw the four-footed animals of the earth, the wild beasts, the reptiles, and the birds of the sky.

7 I also heard a voice telling me, ‘Get up, Peter; kill and eat.’

8 “ ‘No, Lord! ’ I said. ‘For nothing impure or ritually unclean has ever entered my mouth.’

9 But a voice answered from heaven a second time, ‘What God has made clean, you must not call impure.’

10 “Now this happened three times, and everything was drawn up again into heaven.