But a second time the voice answered from heaven, ‘What God has made clean, you must not call profane.’
since it enters not the heart but the stomach and goes out into the sewer?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.)
The voice said to him again, a second time, “What God has made clean, you must not call profane.”
and he said to them, “You yourselves know that it is improper for a Jew to associate with or to visit an outsider, but God has shown me that I should not call anyone profane or unclean.
This happened three times; then everything was pulled up again to heaven.
But I replied, ‘By no means, Lord, for nothing profane or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’
and in cleansing their hearts by faith he has made no distinction between them and us.
for it is sanctified by God’s word and by prayer.