5 "I was in the city of Joppa praying," he said. "There I had a vision. I saw something that looked like a large sheet. It was being let down from heaven by its four corners. It came down to where I was.
6 I looked into it and saw four-footed animals of the earth. There were also wild animals, reptiles and birds.
7 Then I heard a voice speaking to me. 'Get up, Peter,' the voice said. 'Kill and eat.'
8 "I replied, 'No, Lord! I will not! Nothing that is not pure and "clean" has ever entered my mouth.'
9 "A second time the voice spoke from heaven. 'Do not say anything is not pure that God has made "clean," ' the voice said.
10 This happened three times. Then the sheet was pulled up into heaven.
11 "Just then three men stopped at the house where I was staying. They had been sent to me from Caesarea.