Acts 10:15
Again a second time a voice was heard which said, "What God has purified, you must not regard as unholy."
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
In Context
14"On no account, Lord," he replied; "for I have never yet eaten anything unholy and impure."
16This was said three times, and immediately the sail was drawn up out of sight.
Cross References
Mark 7:19because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, and passes away ejected from him?" By these words Jesus pronounced all kinds of food clean.
Acts 11:9"But a voice answered, speaking a second time from the sky, "`What God has purified, you must not regard as unholy.'
Acts 15:20Yet let us send them written instructions to abstain from things polluted by connexion with idolatry, from fornication, from meat killed by strangling, and from blood.
Romans 14:14As one who lives in union with the Lord Jesus, I know and am certain that in its own nature no food is `impure'; but if people regard any food as impure, to them it is.
1 Corinthians 10:25Anything that is for sale in the meat market, eat, and ask no questions for conscience' sake;
1 Timothy 4:3forbidding people to marry, and insisting on abstinence from foods which God has created to be partaken of, 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 →