Peter has come to realize that the issue at stake is not primarily food laws, but the removal of barriers which prevent mission to Gentile people. Contact with Gentiles will not make him unclean and is not contrary to the will of God. He can also eat the food which they would offer to him as a result of the cleansing work of Christ (see Acts 10:15; Titus 3:5–6). Peter has applied the vision of the sheet to human beings.1
28 Vous savez, leur dit-il, qu'il est défendu à un Juif de se lier avec un étranger ou d'entrer chez lui; mais Dieu m'a appris à ne regarder aucun homme comme souillé et impur.