Acts 11:9
"But for the second time a voice spoke from the sky, ‘What God has cleansed, you must not call common.’
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
In Context
8"‘Not so, my Lord’ said I, ‘for nothing common or unclean has ever gone into my mouth.’
10"This was said three times, and then everything was drawn up again into the sky.
Cross References
Acts 10:15And again a second time came to him a voice, saying, "What God has cleansed you must not call common."
Acts 10:34Then Peter began to speak. "Of a truth I begin to see quite plainly that God is no respecter of persons;
1 Timothy 4:5For it is sanctified by the Word of God and by 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 →