Peter Explains His Actions
1 The apostles and the believers throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.
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So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers criticized him
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and said, “You went into the house of uncircumcised men and ate with them.”
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Starting from the beginning, Peter told them the whole story:
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“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.
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I looked into it and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, reptiles and birds.
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Then I heard a voice telling me,
‘Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.’
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“I replied, ‘Surely not, Lord! Nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’
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“The voice spoke from heaven a second time,
‘Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.’
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This happened three times, and then it was all pulled up to heaven again.