4. Then Peter began to explain to them point by point what had happened. He said,
5. “I was praying in the city of Joppa when I fell into a trance. I saw something like a large linen sheet being lowered by its four corners from the sky. The sheet came near me.
6. I looked into the sheet very closely and saw tame animals, wild animals, reptiles, and birds.
7. I also heard a voice telling me, ‘Get up, Peter! Kill these animals, and eat them.’
8. “But I answered, ‘I can’t do that, Lord! I’ve never put anything impure or unclean into my mouth.’
9. “A voice spoke from heaven a second time, ‘Don’t say that the things which God has made clean are impure.’