4 But Peter began speaking and proceeded to explain to them in orderly sequence, saying,
5 "I was in the city of Joppa praying; and in a trance I saw a vision, an object coming down like a great sheet lowered by four corners from the sky; and it came right down to me,
6 and when I had fixed my gaze on it and was observing it I saw the four-footed animals of the earth and the wild beasts and the crawling creatures and the birds of the air.
7 I also heard a voice saying to me, 'Get up, Peter; kill and eat.'
8 But I said, 'By no means, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered my mouth.'
9 But a voice from heaven answered a second time, 'What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy.'
10 This happened three times, and everything was drawn back up into the sky.