Acts 11:9
But the voice spoke from heaven a second time, ‘Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.’
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
In Context
8‘No, Lord,’ I said, ‘for nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’
10This happened three times, and everything was drawn back up into heaven.
Cross References
Acts 10:15The voice spoke to him a second time: “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”
Acts 10:34Then Peter began to speak: “I now truly understand that God does not show favoritism,
1 Timothy 4:5because it is sanctified by the word of God and 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 →