Acts 11:5-10 ▼

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 heaven, and it came right down to me,

6 and when looking closely at it, I was observing it and saw the four-footed animals of the earth and the wild beasts and the crawling creatures and the birds of the sky.

7 And I also heard a voice saying to me, ‘Rise up, Peter; slaughter and eat.’

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

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

10 And this happened three times, and everything was drawn back up into heaven.