Acts 10:9-18

⁹On the next day, as they were on their way and approaching the city, Peter went up on the housetop about the sixth hour to pray. ¹⁰But he became hungry and wanted to eat; but while they were making preparations, he fell into a trance; ¹¹and he *saw the sky opened up, and an object like a great sheet coming down, lowered by four corners to the ground, ¹²and on it were all kinds of four-footed animals and crawling creatures of the earth and birds of the sky. ¹³A voice came to him, “Get up, Peter, kill and eat!” ¹⁴But Peter said, “By no means, Lord, for I have never eaten anything unholy and unclean.” ¹⁵Again a voice came to him a second time, “What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy.” ¹⁶This happened three times, and immediately the object was taken up into the sky.

¹⁷Now while Peter was greatly perplexed in mind as to what the vision which he had seen might mean, behold, the men who had been sent by Cornelius had asked directions to Simon’s house, and they appeared at the gate; ¹⁸and calling out, they were asking whether Simon, who was also called Peter, was staying there.