2. Then, when Peter had gone up to Jerusalem, those who were of the circumcision argued against him,
3. saying, "Why did you enter to uncircumcised men, and why did you eat with them?"
4. And Peter began to explain to them, in an orderly manner, saying:
5. "I was in the city of Joppa praying, and I saw, in an ecstasy of mind, a vision: a certain container descending, like a great linen sheet being let down from heaven by its four corners. And it drew near to me.
6. And looking into it, I considered and saw the four-footed beasts of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the reptiles, and the flying things of the air.
7. Then I also heard a voice saying to me: 'Rise up, Peter. Kill and eat.'
8. But I said: 'Never, lord! For what is common or unclean has never entered into my mouth.'
9. Then the voice responded a second time from heaven, 'What God has cleansed, you shall not call common.'
10. Now this was done three times. And then everything was taken up again into heaven.
11. And behold, immediately there were three men standing near the house where I was, having been sent to me from Caesarea.
12. Then the Spirit told me that I should go with them, doubting nothing. And these six brothers went with me also. And we entered into the house of the man.