5“I was in the town of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision: a certain object like a great sheet coming down out of the sky, being lowered by its four corners; and it came to me.
6Upon peering into it I observed and distinguished the quadrupeds of the earth—both the wild animals and the reptiles—and the birds of the sky.
7Then I heard a voice saying to me, ‘Get up, Peter, slaughter and eat!’
8So I said: ‘No way, Lord! Never has anything ‘common’ or unclean entered my mouth!’
9But the voice answered me, a second time, from heaven, ‘Things that God has made clean you must not call ‘common’.’
10Well this was done three times, and it was all pulled back up into the sky.
11At that very moment three men stopped in front of the house where I was, having been sent from Caesarea to me.
Acts 11
Acts 11:5-11