Acts 10:15
And the voice came to him a second time, What God has made clean, do not you make common.
Bible in Basic English
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In Context
14But Peter said, No, Lord; for I have never taken food which is common or unclean.
16And this was done three times: and then the vessel was taken back into heaven.
Cross References
Mark 7:19Because it goes not into the heart but into the stomach, and goes out with the waste? He said this, making all food clean.
Acts 11:9But the voice, coming a second time from heaven, said, What God has made clean, do not you make common.
Acts 15:20But that we give them orders to keep themselves from things offered to false gods, and from the evil desires of the body, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from blood.
Romans 14:14I am conscious of this, and am certain in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself; but for the man in whose opinion it is unclean, for him it is unclean.
1 Corinthians 10:25Whatever meat may be had at the public market, take as food without question of right or wrong;
1 Timothy 4:3Who keep men from being married and from taking food which God made to be taken with praise by those who have faith and true knowledge.
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 →