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;
9and a voice did answer me a second time out of the heaven, What God did cleanse, thou -- declare not thou common.
10`And this happened thrice, and again was all drawn up to the heaven,
11and, lo, immediately, three men stood at the house in which I was, having been sent from Cesarea unto me,