Acts 11:5

I was praying in the city of Joppa, and I had a vision of a container coming down, like a large sheet let down from heaven by its four corners. It descended to me.

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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 sheet, let down from heaven by four corners; and it came even to me:

In Context

4But Peter started to explain the matter to them in detail; he said,

6I gazed at it and I thought about it. I saw the four-legged animals of earth, wild beasts, creeping animals, and birds of the sky.

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Cross References

Ezekiel 2:9Then I looked, and a hand was extended out to me; in it was a written scroll.

Amos 8:2He said, “What do you see, Amos?” I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then Yahweh said to me, 1 “The end has come for my people Israel; 1 I will spare them no longer. 1

Acts 10:9Now on the next day at about the sixth hour, as they were on their journey and were approaching the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray.

Acts 22:17After I had returned to Jerusalem, and while I was praying in the temple, it happened that I was given a vision.

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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