Acts 10:15
And a voice came to him again, the second time, That which God hath cleansed, call not thou common.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
14But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything common and unclean.
16This was done three times; and the vessel was immediately taken up into heaven.
Cross References
Mark 7:19because it entereth not into his heart, but into the stomach; and goeth out into the drain, which cleanseth all kinds of food.
Acts 11:9But a voice answered the second time out of heaven, That which God hath cleansed, call not thou common.
Acts 15:20but that we should write to them by letter to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from that which hath been strangled, and from blood.
Romans 14:14I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself; but to him that accounteth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
1 Corinthians 10:25Whatever is sold in the market that eat, without asking questions for the sake of conscience;
1 Timothy 4:3forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from food which God created to be received with thanksgiving, for those 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 →