Acts 11:1-9 ▼

1 Now the apostles and the brothers who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles too had accepted the word of God.

2 So when Peter went up to Jerusalem the circumcised believers confronted him,

3 saying, “You entered the house of uncircumcised people and ate with them.”

4 Peter began and explained it to them step by step, saying,

5 “I was at prayer in the city of Joppa when in a trance I had a vision, something resembling a large sheet coming down, lowered from the sky by its four corners, and it came to me.

6 Looking intently into it, I observed and saw the four-legged animals of the earth, the wild beasts, the reptiles, and the birds of the sky.

7 I also heard a voice say to me, ‘Get up, Peter. Slaughter and eat.’

8 But I said, ‘Certainly not, sir, because nothing profane or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’

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