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The news traveled fast and in no time the leaders and friends back in Jerusalem heard about it - heard that the non-Jewish "outsiders" were now "in."
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When Peter got back to Jerusalem, some of his old associates, concerned about circumcision, called him on the carpet:
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"What do you think you're doing rubbing shoulders with that crowd, eating what is prohibited and ruining our good name?"
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So Peter, starting from the beginning, laid it out for them step-by-step:
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"Recently I was in the town of Joppa praying. I fell into a trance and saw a vision: Something like a huge blanket, lowered by ropes at its four corners, came down out of heaven and settled on the ground in front of me.
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Milling around on the blanket were farm animals, wild animals, reptiles, birds - you name it, it was there. Fascinated, I took it all in.
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"Then I heard a voice: 'Go to it, Peter - kill and eat.'
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I said, 'Oh, no, Master. I've never so much as tasted food that wasn't kosher.'
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The voice spoke again: 'If God says it's okay, it's okay.'