1. Now the emissaries and brothers throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.
2. But when Peter went up to Jerusalem, those of the circumcision took issue with him,
3. saying, “You went to uncircumcised men and ate with them!”
4. So Peter began explaining to them point by point, saying,
5. “I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision—something like a great sheet coming down, being lowered from heaven by its four corners, and it came right to me.
6. I looked inside, considering it carefully, and saw four-footed creatures of the earth, wild animals, reptiles, and birds of the air.
7. I also heard a voice saying, ‘Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.’
8. “But I said, ‘Certainly not, Lord! For never has anything unholy or unclean entered my mouth.’
9. But a voice from heaven answered a second time, ‘What God has made clean, you must not consider unholy.’
10. This happened three times, and then everything was pulled up to heaven.