Acts 11:1-9 ▼

1 NOW the apostles and brethren who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.

2 And when Peter went up to Jerusalem, they of the circumcision disputed with him,

3 saying, Thou hast gone in to men holding uncircumcision, and hast eaten with them.

4 Then Peter taking up the matter from the beginning, explained it to them regularly, saying,

5 I was in the city of Joppa praying and I saw in a trance a vision, a certain vessel descending as a vast sheet let down from heaven by its four corners; and it came close to me:

6 on which looking attentively, I perceived, and saw the quadrupeds of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the reptiles, and the birds of the air.

7 Then I heard a voice saying to me, Rise, Peter; slay and eat.

8 But I said, By no means, Lord: for never yet hath any thing common or unclean entered into my mouth.

9 But the voice replied the second time from heaven, What God hath cleansed, call not thou common.