Acts 10:15
And the voice, again a second time to him: “What God has purified, you shall not call common.”
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In Context
14But Peter said: “Far be it from me, lord. For I have never eaten anything common or unclean.”
16Now this was done three times. And immediately the container was taken up to heaven.
Cross References
Mark 7:19For it does not enter into his heart, but into the gut, and it exits into the sewer, purging all foods.”
Acts 11:9Then the voice responded a second time from heaven, ‘What God has cleansed, you shall not call common.’
Acts 15:20but instead that we write to them, that they should keep themselves from the defilement of idols, and from fornication, and from whatever has been suffocated, and from blood.
Romans 14:14I know, with confidence in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in and of itself. But to him who considers anything to be unclean, it is unclean to him.
1 Corinthians 10:25Whatever is sold in the market, you may eat, without asking questions for the sake of conscience.
1 Timothy 4:3prohibiting marriage, abstaining from foods, which God has created to be accepted with thanksgiving by the faithful and by those who have understood 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 →