“But the voice spoke from heaven a second time and said, ‘Don’t say something isn’t pure if God has made it clean.’
God didn’t treat them any differently from us, because he’d made their hearts pure by faith too.
because the word of God and prayer make it holy.
He told them, “You know it’s against our law for a Jew to enter a Gentile home or have any close contact with a Gentile. But God has shown me that I shouldn’t say anyone isn’t pure and clean.
The voice spoke to him a second time and said, “Don’t say something isn’t pure if God has made it clean.”
It doesn’t go into their heart, but into their stomach, and then it passes right back out of the body.” This meant that all foods were clean.
“I replied, ‘No, Lord! I will not! Nothing that isn’t pure and clean has ever entered my mouth.’
This happened three times, and then the sheet was pulled back up to heaven.