Acts 10:15
He heard the voice speak again, “Don't you call unclean what God has made clean!”
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14But Peter replied, “Certainly not, Lord! I have never eaten anything that is impure and unclean.”
16This happened three times, and then the sheet was quickly taken back into heaven.
Cross References
Mark 7:19It doesn't go into your mind, but into your stomach, and then passes out of the body. So all foods are ceremonially ‘clean.’
Acts 11:9The voice from heaven spoke again, and said, ‘Don't you call unclean what God has made clean!’
Acts 15:20We should write to them and tell them to avoid food sacrificed to idols, sexual immorality, meat of animals that have been strangled, and from consuming blood.
Romans 14:14I'm certain—persuaded by the Lord Jesus—that nothing in itself is ceremonially unclean. But if someone considers it to be unclean, to them it is unclean.
1 Corinthians 10:25Eat whatever is sold in the market without asking questions because of your conscience,
1 Timothy 4:3tell people to not marry and not to eat certain foods made by God that should be accepted with thanks by those who trust 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 →