[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by big al

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.

I did say I know it was meant to be symbolic.

If you take a bigger whole though Jesus did "over-ride" the old Mosaic laws (I mean we don't have to sacrifice lambs any more do we?) so maybe that included the food laws?