8and having declared to them all things, he sent them to Joppa.
9And on the morrow, as these are proceeding on the way, and are drawing nigh to the city, Peter went up upon the house-top to pray, about the sixth hour,
10and he became very hungry, and wished to eat; and they making ready, there fell upon him a trance,
11and he doth behold the heaven opened, and descending unto him a certain vessel, as a great sheet, bound at the four corners, and let down upon the earth,
12in which were all the four-footed beasts of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the creeping things, and the fowls of the heaven,
13and there came a voice unto him: `Having risen, Peter, slay and eat.`
14And Peter said, `Not so, Lord; because at no time did I eat anything common or unclean;`