Acts 10:15
And the voice spoke unto him again the second time, What God has cleansed, that call not you common.
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14But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.
16This was done three times: and the vessel was received up again into heaven.
Cross References
Mark 7:19Because it enters not into his heart, but into the belly, and goes out into the draught, purging all meats?
Acts 11:9But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God has cleansed, that call not you common.
Acts 15:20But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
Romans 14:14I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteems any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
1 Corinthians 10:25Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake:
1 Timothy 4:3Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God has created to be received with thanksgiving of them which 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 →