Bible Verses About Visions: To Peter

The next day about noon, while they were still on their way and approaching the city, Kefa went up onto the roof of the house to pray.

He began to feel hungry and wanted something to eat; but while they were preparing the meal, he fell into a trance

in which he saw heaven opened, and something that looked like a large sheet being lowered to the ground by its four corners.

In it were all kinds of four-footed animals, crawling creatures and wild birds.

Then a voice came to him, “Get up, Kefa, slaughter and eat!”

But Kefa said, “No, sir! Absolutely not! I have never eaten food that was unclean or treif.”

The voice spoke to him a second time: “Stop treating as unclean what God has made clean.”

This happened three times, and then the sheet was immediately taken back up into heaven.

Kefa was still puzzling over the meaning of the vision he had seen, when the men Cornelius had sent, having inquired for Shim‘on’s house, stood at the gate