Acts 10:15
And again a second time came to him a voice, saying, "What God has cleansed you must not call common."
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
14"Not so, my Lord," answered Peter, "for I have never yet eaten anything common and unclean."
16This happened three times; and immediately the sail was drawn up into the sky.
Cross References
Mark 7:19because it does not go into his heart, but into his belly, and passes away, ejected from him?" By these words he pronounced all foods clean.
Acts 11:9"But for the second time a voice spoke from the sky, ‘What God has cleansed, you must not call common.’
Acts 15:20"but that we should write to them to abstain from the pollution of idols and from fornication, from meat killed by strangling, and from blood.
Romans 14:14I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is in itself unclean; but any food is "unclean" for one who considers it "unclean."
1 Corinthians 10:25Eat anything that is for sale in the markets, asking no questions for conscience sake;
1 Timothy 4:3who discourage marriage, and enjoin abstinence from foods which God created to be received with thankfulness, by those who believe, and have a clear knowledge of 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 →