Acts 10:15
But the voice came to him again a second time: “What God has cleansed, do not call it defiled.”
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In Context
14But Peter said, “Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that was defiled and unclean.”
16This happened three times; then the container was immediately taken back up into the sky.
Cross References
Mark 7:19because it cannot go into his heart, but it goes into his stomach and then passes out into the latrine?” With this statement Jesus declared all foods clean.
Acts 11:9But the voice answered again from heaven, “What God has declared clean, do not call unclean.”
Acts 15:20But we will write to them that they must keep away from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, and from the meat of strangled animals, and from blood.
Romans 14:14I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean by itself. Only for him who considers anything to be unclean, for him it is unclean.
1 Corinthians 10:25You may eat whatever is sold in the market, without questions of conscience.
1 Timothy 4:3They will forbid to marry and to receive foods that God created for sharing with thanksgiving among those who believe and who 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 →