Acts 11:1-10 ▼

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

2 And when Peter came up to Jerusalem, the Jewish believers took issue with him,

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

4 But Peter began and explained at length to them in an orderly sequence, saying,

5 “I was in the city of Joppa praying; and in a trance I saw a vision, an object coming down like a great sheet lowered by four corners from the sky; and it came to where I was,

6 and I stared at it and was thinking about it, and I saw the four-footed animals of the earth, the wild animals, the crawling creatures, and the birds of the sky.

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

8 But I said, ‘By no means, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’

9 But a voice from heaven answered a second time, ‘What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy.’

10 This happened three times, and everything was drawn back up into the sky.