But a voice answered me the second time out of heaven, ‘What God has cleansed, don’t you call unclean.’
Parallel Translations
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But a voice answered me the second time out of heaven, ‘What God has cleansed, don’t you call unclean.’
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But the voyce answered me agayne from heven count not thou those thinges come which god hath clensed.
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But the voyce answered me the seconde time from heauen, The things that God hath purified, pollute thou not.
Cross-references (6)
Passages linked to Acts 11:9 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Acts 15:9 He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.
- Hebrews 9:13-14 For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
- Acts 10:15 A voice came to him again the second time, “What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean.”
- Acts 10:28 He said to them, “You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn’t call any man unholy or unclean.
- Acts 10:34-35 Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism; but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.
- 1 Timothy 4:5 For it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain This is twice spoken to St. Peter, that it…
This is twice spoken to St. Peter, that it might be the more unquestionable with him and others, it seeming otherwise very strange; and, it may be, therefore twice by St. Luke recorded.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain But the voice answered me again from heaven,.... From…
But the voice answered me again from heaven,.... From whence the former voice came, and was the voice of the Lord, or of an angel of the Lord, and which answered him again, or
a second time; not that it said to him a second time kill and eat, but what follows;
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what God hath cleansed, that call not thou common; that is, had declared to be clean and fit for use, and did not defile, and could not defile the man into whose mouth it entered, and therefore ought not to be pronounced unclean, and of a defiling nature; this Jesus Christ did, who is God over all blessed for ever, and by whose death an end was put to the ceremonial law, and the distinctions of meats by it; Mat 15:11.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain A voice answered the second time out of for…
A voice answered the second time out of for the voice answered me again from, A.V. and T.R.; make for call, A.V.
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J. W. McGarvey 1914 · Public Domain See notes one verse 4
See notes one verse 4
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