Acts 10:15
And the voice again the second time came to him, Whatsoever things God has cleansed, do not count unclean;
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
In Context
16and this took place the third time; and immediately the vessel was received up into the heaven.
Cross References
Mark 7:19Because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, and is cast out into the excrement, purifying all edibles.
Acts 11:9And a voice a second time was heard from heaven, Whatsoever things God has cleansed, consider thou not unconsecrated.
Acts 15:20but to command them to abstain from things offered to idols, and from fornication, and from strangulation, and from blood.
Romans 14:14I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: except to him who considers it unclean, to him it is unclean.
1 Corinthians 10:25Eat everything which is sold in market, asking no questions on account of conscience;
1 Timothy 4:3forbidding to marry, commanding to abstain from meats, which God created for reception with thanksgiving to the faithful and to those perfectly knowing 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 →