Acts 11:9
Then a second time there came a voice from the heavens. ‘What God has pronounced clean’, it said, ‘you must not call defiled.’
Open English Bible (US)
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 cannot,’ I answered, ‘for nothing defiled or unclean has ever passed my lips.’
10This happened three times, and then all was drawn up again into the heavens.
Cross References
Acts 10:15Again he was aware of a voice which said – “What God has pronounced clean, do not regard as defiled.”
Acts 10:34Then Peter began. “I see, beyond all doubt,” he said, “that God does not show partiality,
1 Timothy 4:5for it is consecrated by God’s blessing 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 →