Acts 10:15
And again the second time, there was a voice to him: What God hath cleansed, make thou not unclean.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
14And Simon said: Far be it, my Lord: for never have I eaten any thing unclean and polluted.
16And this was done three times; and the vessel was taken up to heaven.
Cross References
Mark 7:19For it doth not enter into his heart, but into his belly, and is thrown into the digestive process, which carries off all that is eaten.
Acts 11:9And again, a voice from heaven said to me: What God hath cleansed, make thou not unclean.
Acts 15:20But let word be sent to them, that they keep aloof from the defilement of a sacrifice to idols, and from whoredom, and from what is strangled, and from blood.
Romans 14:14I know indeed, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing which is unclean in itself; but to him who thinketh any thing to be unclean, to him only it is defiled.
1 Corinthians 10:25Whatever is sold in the flesh-market, eat ye, without an inquiry on account of conscience:
1 Timothy 4:3and will forbid to marry; and will require abstinence from meats, which God hath created for use and for thankfulness, by them who believe and 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 →