011:002 and, when Peter returned to Jerusalem, the champions of
circumcision found fault with him.
011:003 "You went into the houses of men who are not Jews," they said,
"and you ate with them."
011:004 Peter, however, explained the whole matter to them
from the beginning.
011:005 "While I was in the town of Jaffa, offering prayer," he said, "in a trance I saw a vision. There descended what seemed to be an enormous sail, being let down from the sky by ropes at the four corners, and it came close to me.
011:006 Fixing my eyes on it, I examined it closely, and saw various kinds of quadrupeds, wild beasts, reptiles and birds.
011:007 I also heard a voice saying to me, "`Rise, Peter, kill and eat.'
011:008 "`On no account, Lord,' I replied, `for nothing unholy or impure
has ever gone into my mouth.'
011:009 "But a voice answered, speaking a second time from the sky,
"`What God has purified, you must not regard as unholy.'
011:010 "This was said three times, and then everything was drawn up
again out of sight.
011:011 "Now at that very moment three men came to the house where we were,
having been sent from Caesarea to find me.