The Vision on the Roof

⁹The next day, as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray around noon. ¹⁰He became very hungry and wanted something to eat. But while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. ¹¹He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being lowered to the earth, held by its four corners. ¹²Inside it were all kinds of four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, crawling creatures, and birds of the air. ¹³Then a voice told him, "Get up, Peter. Kill and eat." ¹⁴But Peter said, "Absolutely not, Lord! I have never eaten anything common or unclean." ¹⁵The voice spoke to him a second time: "What God has made clean, do not call common." ¹⁶This happened three times, and then the sheet was taken back up into heaven.