Acts 10:16

And this was done thrice: and straightway the vessel was received up into heaven.

We agree with Milligan who understood this verse as teaching that "The whole scene, including the sights and sounds, the vision and the dialogue, was repeated three times."[12] The purpose of this, of course, was to emphasize it. It will be remembered that when Joseph interpreted the dream of Pharaoh, in two similar events of the good ears being destroyed by the blasted ears, and the fat cattle being devoured by the lean cattle, the dreams were one.

"The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one." (Genesis 41:26).