1 Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had accepted the word of God.
2 So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, those of the circumcision took issue with him,
3 saying, “You went to men who were uncircumcised and ate with them!”
4 But Peter began and explained it to them in an orderly sequence, saying,
5 “I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision—an object something like a large sheet coming down, being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came to me.
6 As I looked intently into it, I was considering it, and I saw the four-footed animals of the earth and the wild animals and the reptiles and the birds of the sky.