¹¹ He saw heaven opened^(A) and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners. ¹² It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles and birds. ¹³ Then a voice told him, “Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.”

¹⁴ “Surely not, Lord!”^(B) Peter replied. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.”^(C)

¹⁵ The voice spoke to him a second time, “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”^(D)

¹⁶ This happened three times, and immediately the sheet was taken back to heaven.

²⁵ Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience,^(A)

²⁶ for, “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.”^[a](A)