Acts 11:1-9 ▼

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

2 So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers took issue with him,

3 saying, |You went to uncircumcised men and shared a meal with them.|

4 But Peter began and explained it to them point by point, saying,

5 I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision, an object something like a large sheet descending, being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came to me.

6 As I stared I looked into it and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, reptiles, and wild birds.

7 I also heard a voice saying to me, 'Get up, Peter; slaughter and eat!'

8 But I said, 'Certainly not, Lord, for nothing defiled or ritually unclean has ever entered my mouth!'

9 But the voice replied a second time from heaven, 'What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!'