Acts 11:9
Then the voice responded a second time from heaven, ‘What God has cleansed, you shall not call common.’
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
In Context
8But I said: ‘Never, lord! For what is common or unclean has never entered into my mouth.’
10Now this was done three times. And then everything was taken up again into heaven.
Cross References
Acts 10:15And the voice, again a second time to him: “What God has purified, you shall not call common.”
Acts 10:34Then, Peter, opening his mouth, said: “I have concluded in truth that God is not a respecter of persons.
1 Timothy 4:5for it has been sanctified by the Word of God and by prayer.
Matthew Henry on Acts 11:2-19
Peter's Vindication. 1 And the apostles and brethren that were in Judæa heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God. 2 And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that were of the circumcision contended with him, 3 Saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them. 4 But Peter rehearsed the matter from the beginning, and expounded it by order unto them, saying, 5 I was in the city of Joppa praying: and in a trance I saw a vision, A certain vessel descend, as it had been a great… Read the whole commentary →