Acts 11:9
"But a voice answered, speaking a second time from the sky, "`What God has purified, you must not regard as unholy.'
Weymouth NT (1912)
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"`On no account, Lord,' I replied, `for nothing unholy or impure has ever gone into my mouth.'
10"This was said three times, and then everything was drawn up again out of sight.
Cross References
Acts 10:15Again a second time a voice was heard which said, "What God has purified, you must not regard as unholy."
Acts 10:34Then Peter began to speak. "I clearly see," he said, "that God makes no distinctions between one man and another;
1 Timothy 4:5For it is made holy 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 →