Luke’s detailed account of Peter’s vision, which happens three times (10:9–16), points to its significance. The vision involves the issue of unclean food (cf. Lev. 11:1–47) and reaches its climax with the declaration by a voice: “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean” (10:15). In context, this declaration is to be interpreted as referring to a new stage in salvation history when Gentiles are now no longer considered unacceptable to God. This reading is confirmed by Peter’s statement later, in verse 28, in reference to the Gentiles. In Old Testament and Second Temple Judaism, the observance of clean and unclean laws is often used as an identity claim whereby Jews are publicly set apart from the Gentiles (cf. Dan. 1:8–12; 2 Maccabees 6:18–25). God’s vision for Peter directly ch…