Acts 10:9-16

9The next day as Cornelius’s messengers were nearing the town, Peter went up on the flat roof to pray. It was about noon,

10and he was hungry. But while a meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance.

11He saw the sky open, and something like a large sheet was let down by its four corners.

12In the sheet were all sorts of animals, reptiles, and birds.

13Then a voice said to him, “Get up, Peter; kill and eat them.”

14“No, Lord,” Peter declared. “I have never eaten anything that our Jewish laws have declared impure and unclean.”

15But the voice spoke again: “Do not call something unclean if God has made it clean.”

16The same vision was repeated three times. Then the sheet was suddenly pulled up to heaven.