1. The apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles had welcomed God’s message also.
2. When Peter went up to Jerusalem, those who stressed circumcision argued with him,
3. saying, “You visited uncircumcised men and ate with them! ”
4. Peter began to explain to them in an orderly sequence, saying:
5. “I was in the town of Joppa praying, and I saw, in a visionary state, an object that resembled a large sheet coming down, being lowered by its four corners from heaven, and it came to me.
6. When I looked closely and considered it, I saw the four-footed animals of the earth, the wild beasts, the reptiles, and the birds of the sky.
7. Then I also heard a voice telling me, ‘Get up, Peter; kill and eat! ’
8. “ ‘No, Lord! ’ I said. ‘For nothing common or ritually unclean has ever entered my mouth! ’
9. But a voice answered from heaven a second time, ‘What God has made clean, you must not call common.’
10. “Now this happened three times, and then everything was drawn up again into heaven.
11. At that very moment, three men who had been sent to me from Caesarea arrived at the house where we were.
12. Then the Spirit told me to accompany them with no doubts at all. These six brothers accompanied me, and we went into the man’s house.