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.
12. The Holy Spirit told me not to let anything keep me from going with them. These six brothers here went with me. We entered the man's house.