(10:9–16) This paragraph describes Peter’s strange vision about unclean animals, descending from heaven in a sheet-like object, that Peter is commanded to eat (10:9–13). When he refuses two commands, God responds with a mysterious saying about how what is created clean cannot be called profane (10:14–16). 10:9 This verse states that Peter climbs on a roof to pray at about noon just as the delegation of three men that Cornelius sent to Joppa to get Peter is approaching the city (10:7–8).