5“I was in the town of Jaffa,” he said, “and was praying; and, while in a trance, I saw a vision. There was something like a great sail descending, let down by its four corners out of the heavens; and it came right down to me.
6Looking intently at it, I began to distinguish quadrupeds, wild beasts, reptiles, and birds;
7and I also heard a voice saying to me — ‘Stand up, Peter, kill something and eat.’
8‘No, Lord, I cannot,’ I answered, ‘for nothing defiled or unclean has ever passed my lips.’
9Then a second time there came a voice from the heavens. ‘What God has pronounced clean’, it said, ‘you must not call defiled.’
10This happened three times, and then all was drawn up again into the heavens.