Acts 10:6-16

⁶He is staying with a tanner named Simon, whose house is by the seaside.”

⁷When the angel who spoke to him had left, Cornelius called two of his house servants, and a devout soldier from among those who served him.

⁸Cornelius told them all that had happened and sent them to Joppa.

⁹Now on the next day at about the sixth hour, as they were on their journey and were approaching the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray.

¹⁰He then became hungry and wanted something to eat, but while the people were cooking some food, he was given a vision,

¹¹and he saw the sky open and a certain container descending, something like a large sheet coming down to the earth, let down by its four corners.

¹²In it were all kinds of four-footed animals and things that crawled on the earth, and birds of the sky.

¹³Then a voice spoke to him: “Rise, Peter, kill and eat.”

¹⁴But Peter said, “Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that was defiled and unclean.”

¹⁵But the voice came to him again a second time: “What God has cleansed, do not call it defiled.”

¹⁶This happened three times; then the container was immediately taken back up into the sky.