Acts 11:1-10

1The apostles and the other believers in Judea heard that Gentiles had also believed the message from God.

2Peter then returned from Caesarea and he arrived in Jerusalem. Some of the Jews there who were believers spoke against him. These Jews thought that all believers should be circumcised.

3So they said to Peter, ‘You stayed in the house of men who were not circumcised. You even ate meals with them!’

4Peter then began to explain everything that had happened. He said to them,

5‘I was staying in a house in the city of Joppa. One day, when I was praying, I had a special dream. In this vision, I saw something that came down from heaven. It was like a large piece of cloth. Somebody held it at each of its four corners and let it come down to the ground next to me.

6I looked carefully at it. I saw that there were farm animals with four legs inside the cloth. There were also wild animals, snakes, and birds in it.

7Then I heard a voice that said to me, “Peter, stand up and kill some of these animals. Then you can cook them and eat the meat.”

8But I answered, “No, Lord, I would certainly not do that. I have never eaten an animal that our Law says is unclean.”

9Then the voice spoke to me from heaven again. It said, “God has made these animals good for people to eat. So you must not say that it is not right to eat them.”

10All this happened three times. After that, the cloth went back up into heaven again.