Acts 11:10

10 This happened three times, then everything was pulled back into heaven.

Acts 11:10 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 11:10

And this was done three times
That is, the voice from heaven answered three times, and encouraged Peter to kill and eat; and so the Ethiopic version renders it, "and he likewise said unto me the third time"; the words as before:

and all were drawn up again into heaven;
the sheet with all the creatures upon it, by the same hands that let it down; the Syriac version renders it, "and all betook themselves to heaven"; as if it all went up to heaven of itself; and the Ethiopic version, "and the whole returned again to heaven"; (See Gill on Acts 10:16).

Acts 11:10 In-Context

8 I responded, ‘Absolutely not, Lord! Nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.'
9 The voice from heaven spoke a second time, ‘Never consider unclean what God has made pure.'
10 This happened three times, then everything was pulled back into heaven.
11 At that moment three men who had been sent to me from Caesarea arrived at the house where we were staying.
12 The Spirit told me to go with them even though they were Gentiles. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered that man's house.
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