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Acts 11:9

God spoke from heaven to me a second time, ‘ I am God, so if I have made something acceptable to eat, do not say that it is not acceptable to eat!’

Translation for Translators

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, ‘Lord, you(sg) surely do not really want me to do that, because I have never eaten [MTY] meat from any animal that our laws say that we (exc) must not eat [SYN]!’

10Then after that happened three times, the sheet with all those animals and birds was pulled up into heaven again.”

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Cross References

Acts 10:15Then Peter heard [MTY] God talk to him a second time. He said, “ I am God, so if I have made something acceptable to eat, do not say that it is not acceptable to eat!”

Acts 10:34So Peter began to speak [MTY] to them. He said, “ Now I understand that it is true that God does not favor only certain groups of people.

1 Timothy 4:5It is acceptable to God because God long ago said that all things that he made are good, and because we pray that God will bless it.

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 →

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