Acts 11:5-10 ▼

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

6 into which gazing intently, I was considering, and saw the four-footed beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and the birds of the heaven.

7 And I heard also a voice, saying to me, 'Arising, Peter, kill and eat.'

8 But I said, 'By no means, Lord; because a common or an unclean thing never entered into my mouth!'

9 But a voice answered a second time out of the heaven, 'What God cleansed, make not common.'

10 And this took place thrice: and all were drawn up again into the heaven.