Acts 11:5 meaning and explanation

“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.

Acts 11:5, Berean Standard Bible

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Peter is retelling the vision he received in Joppa, and he is speaking to the circumcised believers in Jerusalem who have challenged him for eating with uncircumcised men. He describes being in prayer when he fell into a trance, a state in which ordinary awareness gives way to a God given vision.

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