4 Peter began to explain to them in an orderly sequence, saying:
5 “I was in the town of Joppa praying, and I saw, in a visionary state, an object that resembled a large sheet coming down, being lowered by its four corners from heaven, and it came to me.
6 When I looked closely and considered it, I saw the four-footed animals of the earth, the wild beasts, the reptiles, and the birds of the sky.
7 Then I also heard a voice telling me, ‘Get up, Peter; kill and eat! ’
8 “ ‘No, Lord! ’ I said. ‘For nothing common or ritually unclean has ever entered my mouth! ’
9 But a voice answered from heaven a second time, ‘What God has made clean, you must not call common.’
10 “Now this happened three times, and then everything was drawn up again into heaven.