Acts 11:2-10

²When Peter had come up to Jerusalem, they who belonged to the circumcision group criticized him;

³they said, “You associated with uncircumcised men and ate with them!”

⁴But Peter started to explain the matter to them in detail; he said,

⁵I was praying in the city of Joppa, and I had a vision of a container coming down, like a large sheet let down from heaven by its four corners. It descended to me.

⁶I gazed at it and I thought about it. I saw the four-legged animals of earth, wild beasts, creeping animals, and birds of the sky.

⁷Then I heard a voice say to me, “Get up, Peter; kill and eat!”

⁸I said, “Not so, Lord; for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.”

⁹But the voice answered again from heaven, “What God has declared clean, do not call unclean.”

¹⁰This happened three times, and then everything was taken back up into heaven again.