Bible Verses About Parables: The sheet let down from heaven in Peter's vision

and he became very hungry, and wished to eat; and they making ready, there fell upon him a trance,

and he doth behold the heaven opened, and descending unto him a certain vessel, as a great sheet, bound at the four corners, and let down upon the earth,

in which were all the four-footed beasts of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the creeping things, and the fowls of the heaven,

and there came a voice unto him: `Having risen, Peter, slay and eat.'

And Peter said, `Not so, Lord; because at no time did I eat anything common or unclean;'

and there is a voice again a second time unto him: `What God did cleanse, thou, declare not thou common;'

and this was done thrice, and again was the vessel received up to the heaven.