Acts 11:4-12

4But Peter began and explained it to them point by point, saying,

5“I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision, an object something like a large sheet descending, being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came to me.

6As I stared I looked into it and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, reptiles, and wild birds.

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

8But I said, ‘Certainly not, Lord, for nothing defiled or ritually unclean has ever entered my mouth!’

9But the voice replied a second time from heaven, ‘What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!’

10This happened three times, and then everything was pulled up to heaven again.

11At that very moment, three men sent to me from Caesarea approached the house where we were staying.

12The Spirit told me to accompany them without hesitation. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the man’s house.