Acts 10:4-15

4But he, having fixed his eyes upon him, and become full of fear, said, What is it, Lord? And he said to him, Thy prayers and thine alms have gone up for a memorial before 1God.

5And now send men to Joppa and fetch Simon, who is surnamed Peter.

6He lodges with a certain Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the sea.

7And when the angel who was speaking to him had departed, having called two of his household and a pious soldier of those who were constantly with him,

8and related all things to them, he sent them to Joppa.

9And on the morrow, as these were journeying and drawing near to the city, Peter went up on the house to pray, about the sixth hour.

10And he became hungry and desired to eat. But as they were making ready an ecstasy came upon him:

11and he beholds the heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending, as a great sheet, [bound] by [the] four corners [and] let down to the earth;

12in which were all the quadrupeds and creeping things of the earth, and the fowls of the heaven.

13And there was a voice to him, Rise, Peter, slay and eat.

14And Peter said, In no wise, Lord; for I have never eaten anything common or unclean.

15And [there was] a voice again the second time to him, What 2God has cleansed, do not thou make common.