Acts 10:5-16

⁵And now send men to Joppa and fetch Simon, who is surnamed Peter.

⁶He lodges with a certain Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the sea.

⁷And when the angel who was speaking to him had departed, having called two of his household and a pious soldier of those who were constantly with him,

⁸and related all things to them, he sent them to Joppa.

⁹And on the morrow, as these were journeying and drawing near to the city, Peter went up on the house to pray, about the sixth hour.

¹⁰And he became hungry and desired to eat. But as they were making ready an ecstasy came upon him:

¹¹and he beholds the heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending, as a great sheet, bound by the four corners and let down to the earth;

¹²in which were all the quadrupeds and creeping things of the earth, and the fowls of the heaven.

¹³And there was a voice to him, Rise, Peter, slay and eat.

¹⁴And Peter said, In no wise, Lord; for I have never eaten anything common or unclean.

¹⁵And there was a voice again the second time to him, What God has cleansed, do not thou make common.

¹⁶And this took place thrice, and the vessel was straightway taken up into heaven.