Acts 10:15
The voice came to him again a second time: “Do not regard as defiled what God has made clean.”
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In Context
14But Peter said, “Surely not, Lord! For I have never eaten anything that is defiled or unclean.”
16This happened three times, and then the object was taken up again into heaven.
Cross References
Mark 7:19For it does not go into his heart but into his stomach; then it goes out into the latrine, thus purifying all foods.”
Acts 11:9The voice from heaven responded to me a second time: ‘Do not regard as defiled what God has made clean.’
Acts 15:20but that we should write to them, telling them to abstain from things defiled by idols, from fornication, from what has been strangled, and from blood.
Romans 14:14I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in and of itself, but it is unclean for anyone who considers it to be unclean.
1 Corinthians 10:25Eat whatever is sold in the meat market, questioning nothing for the sake of conscience,
1 Timothy 4:3They forbid marriage and demand abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by 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 →