But a voice answered me the second time out of heaven, ‘What God has cleansed, don’t you call unclean.’
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Acts 11:9 in context
Acts 11:6–12
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When I had looked intently at it, I considered, and saw the four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky.
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I also heard a voice saying to me, ‘Rise, Peter, kill and eat!’
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But I said, ‘Not so, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.’
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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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This was done three times, and all were drawn up again into heaven.
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Behold, immediately three men stood before the house where I was, having been sent from Caesarea to me.
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The Spirit told me to go with them without discriminating. These six brothers also accompanied me, and we entered into the man’s house.
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