Acts 11:5

³ and said, “You visited uncircumcised men and ate with them.”

⁴ But Peter began and explained to them the whole sequence of events:

“I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision of something like a large sheet being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came right down to me.

⁶ I looked at it closely and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, reptiles, and birds of the air.

⁷ Then I heard a voice saying to me, ‘Get up, Peter, kill and eat.’

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: “I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision of something like a large sheet being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came right down to me.
KJV: I was in the city of Joppa praying: and in a trance I saw a vision, A certain vessel descend, as it had been a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners; and it came even to me:
WEB: “I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision: a certain container descending, like it was a great sheet let down from heaven by four corners. It came as far as me.
ASV: I was in the city of Joppa praying: and in a trance I saw a vision, a certain vessel descending, as it were a great sheet let down from heaven by four corners; and it came even unto me:
DARBY: I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in an ecstasy I saw a vision, a certain vessel descending like a great sheet, let down by four corners out of heaven, and it came even to me:
BLB: “I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision, a certain vessel like a great sheet descending, being let down out of heaven by four corners, and it came as far as me.

ÅB: Jeg var i byen Joppe og ba; da så jeg i en henrykkelse et syn: Det dalte ned noe, slik som en stor duk, som ble senket ned fra himmelen etter de fire hjørner, og det kom like bort til meg;
OTB: “Jeg var i byen Joppe og ba, og i en transe så jeg et syn: noe som et stort laken ble senket ned fra himmelen etter de fire hjørnene, og det kom ned til der jeg var.
B1930: Jeg var i byen Joppe og bad; da så jeg i en henrykkelse et syn: Det dalte ned noget, likesom en stor duk, som blev senket ned fra himmelen efter de fire hjørner, og det kom like bort til mig;

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Acts 10:9–32
The next day at about the sixth hour, as the men were approaching the city on their journey, Peter went up on the roof to pray.
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Amos 8:2
“Amos, what do you see?” He asked. “A basket of summer fruit,” I replied. So the LORD said to me, “The end has come for My people Israel; I will no longer spare them.”
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Acts 22:17
Later, when I had returned to Jerusalem and was praying at the temple, I fell into a trance
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Amos 7:4–7
This is what the Lord GOD showed me: The Lord GOD was calling for judgment by fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the land.
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Acts 9:10
In Damascus there was a disciple named Ananias. The Lord spoke to him in a vision, “Ananias!” “Here I am, Lord,” he answered.
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Ezekiel 2:9
Then I looked and saw a hand reaching out to me, and in it was a scroll,
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Acts 11:5–14
“I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision of something like a large sheet being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came right down to me.
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Jeremiah 1:11–14
And the word of the LORD came to me, asking, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” “I see a branch of an almond tree,” I replied.
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