Acts 11:9
The voice from heaven responded to me a second time: ‘Do not regard as defiled what God has made clean.’
Text-Critical English NT
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 said, ‘Surely not, Lord! For nothing defiled or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’
10This happened three times, and then everything was drawn up again into heaven.
Cross References
Acts 10:15The voice came to him again a second time: “Do not regard as defiled what God has made clean.”
Acts 10:34Then Peter opened his mouth and said, “Now I truly understand that God shows no partiality,
1 Timothy 4:5since it is sanctified through the word of God and 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 →