Acts 11:2-13

²After Peter got back to Jerusalem some of the Jewish Christians growled at him.

³They said, “You went into the house of people that are not Jews, and you even ate food with them.”

⁴Then Peter told them all the things that happened.

⁵He said, “I was in the town called Joppa and I was praying, and I had like a dream, but I was still awake. I saw something like a big sheet with things in it. Somebody was holding on to the 4 corners and they let it come down from heaven to me, on the ground.

⁶I looked inside it and saw all kinds of animals, and lizards, and snakes, and birds.

⁷Then I heard a voice say to me, ‘Get up Peter. Kill some of those animals and eat them.’

⁸But I said, ‘No, boss. I will not. Our law says we can’t eat that kind of animal. They are no good, so I never eat any of them.’

⁹Then I heard that voice from heaven again. It said, ‘If God says that something is good, don’t say it is no good.’

¹⁰That happened 3 times, and then that sheet and everything in it went back up into heaven.

¹¹Just then 3 men came to the house I was staying in. They came from Caesarea.

¹²The Holy Spirit told me, ‘Don’t worry, just go with those men.’ So I went with them, and these 6 other men here, they went with me too. We got there and went into a man’s house.

¹³That man told us that he saw an angel in his house. The angel said, ‘Simon Peter has a message for you, so send somebody to Joppa to get him. He will tell you the way God can save you, and your family, and everyone else in your house too.’