Acts 10:15
And a voice [came] unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, make not thou common.
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In Context
14But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common and unclean.
16And this was done thrice: and straightway the vessel was received up into heaven.
Cross References
Mark 7:19because it goeth not into his heart, but into his belly, and goeth out into the draught? [This he said], making all meats clean.
Acts 11:9But a voice answered the second time out of heaven, What God hath cleansed, make not thou common.
Acts 15:20but that we write unto them, that they abstain from the 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: save that to him who accounteth anything 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, [and commanding] to abstain from meats, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by them that 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 →