Acts 11:1-10

1The apostles and the brothers and sisters who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.

2When Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcision party criticized him,

3saying, “You went to uncircumcised men and ate with them.”

4Peter began to explain to them step by step,

5“I was in the town of Joppa praying, and I saw, in a trance, an object that resembled a large sheet coming down, being lowered by its four corners from heaven, and it came to me.

6When I looked closely and considered it, I saw the four-footed animals of the earth, the wild beasts, the reptiles, and the birds of the sky.

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

8“‘No, Lord! ’ I said. ‘For nothing impure or ritually unclean has ever entered my mouth.’

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

10“Now this happened three times, and everything was drawn up again into heaven.