2and when Peter came up to Jerusalem, those of the circumcision were contending with him,
3saying -- `Unto men uncircumcised thou didst go in, and didst eat with them!`
4And Peter having begun, did expound to them in order saying,
5`I was in the city of Joppa praying, and I saw in a trance a vision, a certain vessel coming down, as a great sheet by four corners being let down out of the heaven, and it came unto me;
6at which having looked stedfastly, I was considering, and I saw the four-footed beasts of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the creeping things, and the fowls of heaven;
7and I heard a voice saying to me, Having risen, Peter, slay and eat;
8and I said, Not so, Lord; because anything common or unclean hath at no time entered into my mouth;