Acts 11:3
"You went into the houses of men who are not Jews," they said, "and you ate with them."
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
Saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them.
In Context
2and, when Peter returned to Jerusalem, the champions of circumcision found fault with him.
4Peter, however, explained the whole matter to them from the beginning.
Cross References
Luke 15:2and this led the Pharisees and the Scribes indignantly to complain, saying, "He gives a welcome to notorious sinners, and joins them at their meals!"
Acts 10:28He said to them, "You know better than most that a Jew is strictly forbidden to associate with a Gentile or visit him; but God has taught me to call no one unholy or unclean.
1 Corinthians 5:11But what I meant was that you were not to associate with any one bearing the name of "brother," if he was addicted to fornication or avarice or idol-worship or abusive language or hard-drinking or greed of gain. With such a man you ought not even to eat.
2 John 1:10If any one who comes to you does not bring this teaching, do not receive him under your roof nor bid him Farewell.
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 →