Acts 11:4-12

4But Peter began [at the beginning] and explained [the events] to them step by step, saying,

5“I was in the city of Joppa praying; and in a trance I saw a vision of an object coming down from heaven, like a huge sheet being lowered by the four corners; and [it descended until] it came right down to me,

6and looking closely at it, I saw all kinds of the four-footed animals of the earth and the wild beasts and the crawling creatures and the birds of the air [both clean and unclean according to the Law],

7and I also heard a voice saying to me, ‘Get up, Peter; kill and eat.’

8But I said, ‘Not at all, Lord; for nothing common (unholy) or [ceremonially] unclean has ever entered my mouth.’

9But the voice from heaven answered a second time, ‘What God has cleansed and pronounced clean, no longer consider common (unholy).’

10This happened three times, and everything was drawn up again into heaven.

11And right then the three men who had been sent to me from Caesarea arrived at the house where we were staying.

12The Spirit told me to go with them without the slightest hesitation. So these six brothers also went with me and we went to the man’s house.