Peter’s Vision

(Leviticus 11:1–47, Deuteronomy 14:1–21)

9 The next day at about the sixth hour,[fn] as [the men] were approaching the city on their journey, Peter went up on the roof to pray. 10 He became hungry and wanted [something] to eat, but [while] the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance.

11 He saw heaven open and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners. 12 It contained all kinds of four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth, as well as birds of the air. 13 Then a voice said to him: “Get up, Peter, kill and eat!”

14 “No, Lord!” Peter answered. I have never eaten anything impure[fn] or unclean.”

15 [The] voice [spoke] to him a second time: Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”

16 This happened three times, and all at once the [sheet] was taken back up into heaven.