Acts 10:15
And a voice came to him again, the second time: What God cleansed, call not thou common.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
In The King James Version
In Context
14But Peter said: Not so, Lord; for I never ate anything common or unclean.
16This was done thrice; and the vessel was taken up again into heaven.
Cross References
Mark 7:19Because it enters not into his heart, but into the belly, and goes out into the drain, cleansing all food.
Acts 11:9But a voice answered me a second time out of heaven: What God cleansed, regard not thou as common.
Acts 15:20but that we write to them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.
Romans 14:14I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; but to him that accounts anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
1 Corinthians 10:25Whatever is sold in the market eat, asking no question for conscience sake';
1 Timothy 4:3forbidding to marry, commanding to abstain from food, which God created to be received with thanksgiving, for those[4:3] 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 →