Acts 10:15
And the voice spoke to him again the second time: That which God hath cleansed, do not thou call common.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
14But Peter said: Far be it from me; for I never did eat any thing that is common and unclean.
16And this was done thrice; and presently the vessel was taken up into heaven.
Cross References
Mark 7:19Because it entereth not into his heart, but goeth into the belly, and goeth out into the privy, purging all meats?
Acts 11:9And the voice answered again from heaven: What God hath made clean, do not thou call common.
Acts 15:20But that we write unto them, that they refrain themselves from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
Romans 14:14I know, and am confident in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
1 Corinthians 10:25Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, eat; asking no question for conscience' sake.
1 Timothy 4:3Forbidding to marry, to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful, and by them that have known 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 →