2. When Peter went up to Jerusalem, those who stressed circumcision argued with him,
3. saying, “You visited uncircumcised men and ate with them! ”
4. Peter began to explain to them in an orderly sequence, saying:
5. “I was in the town of Joppa praying, and I saw, in a visionary state, an object that resembled a large sheet coming down, being lowered by its four corners from heaven, and it came to me.
6. When I looked closely and considered it, I saw the four-footed animals of the earth, the wild beasts, the reptiles, and the birds of the sky.
7. Then I also heard a voice telling me, ‘Get up, Peter; kill and eat! ’
8. “ ‘No, Lord! ’ I said. ‘For nothing common or ritually unclean has ever entered my mouth! ’
9. But a voice answered from heaven a second time, ‘What God has made clean, you must not call common.’
10. “Now this happened three times, and then everything was drawn up again into heaven.