Acts 10:9-16

Contemporary English Version

^9 (A) The next day about noon these men were coming near Joppa. Peter went up on the roof^[a] of the house to pray ¹⁰ and became very hungry. While the food was being prepared, he fell sound asleep and had a vision. ¹¹ He saw heaven open, and something came down like a huge sheet held up by its four corners. ¹² In it were all kinds of animals, reptiles, and birds. ¹³ A voice said to him, “Peter, get up! Kill these and eat them.”

^14 (B) But Peter said, “Lord, I can't do that! I've never eaten anything that is unclean and not fit to eat.”^[b]

¹⁵ The voice spoke to him again, “When God says that something can be used for food, don't say it isn't fit to eat.”

¹⁶ This happened three times before the sheet was suddenly taken back to heaven.