Acts 10:15
And the voice came to him again a second time: What God has cleansed, you must not call common.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
14But Peter said: By no means, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing common or unclean.
16This was done the third time; and the vessel was taken up again into heaven.
Cross References
Mark 7:19Because it does not enter into his heart, but into his belly, and goes out into the sink, cleansing all food.
Acts 11:9But the voice answered me a second time from heaven, What God has cleansed, you must not call common.
Acts 15:20but that we write to them to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from lewdness, and from what is strangled, and from blood.
Romans 14:14I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself; but if any one thinks that any thing is unclean, to him it is unclean.
1 Corinthians 10:25Any thing that is sold in the market, eat, asking no questions on account of conscience:
1 Timothy 4:3who forbid to marry, and command to abstain from meats, which God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe, and know the truth.
Matthew Henry on Acts 10:10-19
Peter's Vision. 9 On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour: 10 And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance, 11 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: 12 Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of… Read the whole commentary →