Acts 10:9-18

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.

17Peter was very perplexed. What could the vision mean? Just then the men sent by Cornelius found Simon’s house. Standing outside the gate,

18they asked if a man named Simon Peter was staying there.