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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp
I had in mind the bit where Peter was hungry and fell into a trance and saw "heaven opened and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth: wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts, creeping things and fouls of the air. And there came a voice to him, Rise Peter, kill and eat. But Peter said Not so Lord for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean. And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common." Acts 10:11-15
So I reckon if the Lord was saying it was OK for Peter to eat anything whether or not the Jews called it clean or unclean because he had come to supercede the Mosaic law, then he probably wasn't averse to a bit of pork himself. I know it was meant to be symbolic.
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Willow: fact, this was a vision, not reality & was teaching Peter a lesson that when he was directed to preach to the non jews, in preference as he had to the jews only, not to call the non jews, or commoners, unclean as this was a new direction following the jews rejection of Jesus. Context says such a lot when read as a whole & not disected.