11 He saw heaven opened and an object that resembled a large sheet coming down, being lowered by its four corners to the earth.
12 In it were all the four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth, and the birds of the sky.
13 Then a voice said to him, “Get up, Peter; kill and eat! ”
14 “No, Lord! ” Peter said. “For I have never eaten anything common and ritually unclean! ”
15 Again, a second time, a voice said to him, “What God has made clean, you must not call common.”
16 This happened three times, and then the object was taken up into heaven.
17 While Peter was deeply perplexed about what the vision he had seen might mean, the men who had been sent by Cornelius, having asked directions to Simon’s house, stood at the gate.