“I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision—an object something like a large sheet coming down, being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came to me. As I[a] looked intently into it, I was considering it,[b] and I saw the four-footed animals of the earth and the wild animals and the reptiles and the birds of the sky. And I also heard a voice saying to me, ‘Get up, Peter, slaughter and eat!’

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 11:6 Here “as” is supplied as a component of the participle (“looked intently”) which is understood as temporal
  2. Acts 11:6 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation