#ScriptureReflection - Acts of the Apostles 11:1-10 (7.8.22)

1  The apostles and the believers throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. ²  So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers criticized him ³  and said, “You went into the house of uncircumcised men and ate with them.”

⁴  Starting from the beginning, Peter told them the whole story: ⁵  “I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision. I saw something like a large sheet being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came down to where I was. ⁶  I looked into it and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, reptiles and birds. ⁷  Then I heard a voice telling me, ‘Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.’

⁸  “I replied, ‘Surely not, Lord! Nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’

⁹  “The voice spoke from heaven a second time, ‘Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.’ ¹⁰  This happened three times, and then it was all pulled up to heaven again.

Source: NIV (New International Version)