5. I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in an ecstasy I saw a vision, a certain vessel descending like a great sheet, let down by four corners out of heaven, and it came even to me:
6. on which having fixed mine eyes, I considered, and saw the quadrupeds of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the creeping things, and the fowls of the heaven.
7. And I heard also a voice saying to me, Rise up, Peter, slay and eat.
8. And I said, In no wise, Lord, for common or unclean has never entered into my mouth.
9. And a voice answered the second time out of heaven, What God has cleansed, do not thou make common.
10. And this took place thrice, and again all was drawn up into heaven;
11. and lo, immediately three men were at the house in which I was, sent to me from Caesarea.