Acts 11:9
The voice from heaven spoke again, and said, ‘Don't you call unclean what God has made clean!’
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
In Context
8But I replied, ‘Absolutely not, Lord! Nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth!’
10This happened three times, and then it was all taken back into heaven.
Cross References
Acts 10:15He heard the voice speak again, “Don't you call unclean what God has made clean!”
Acts 10:34Peter replied, “I'm totally convinced that God has no favorites.
1 Timothy 4:5since it is made sacred by the word of God and by 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 →