Acts 11:3

3 saying, "You went to men {who were uncircumcised} and ate with them!"

Acts 11:3 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 11:3

Saying, thou wentest into men uncircumcised
Into the houses of such, and lodged with them, and familiarly conversed with them:

and didst eat with them;
which, according to the traditions of the Jews, were unlawful; (See Gill on Acts 10:28) they say nothing about his preaching to them, and baptizing them, because these were so manifestly agreeable to the commission of Christ, in ( Matthew 28:19 ) ( Mark 16:15 ) and yet how these could be without the other, is not easy to say.

Acts 11:3 In-Context

1 Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had accepted the word of God.

2 So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, those of the circumcision took issue with him,

3 saying, "You went to men {who were uncircumcised} and ate with them!"

4 But Peter began [and] explained [it] to them in an orderly sequence, saying,

5 "I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision--an object something like a large sheet coming down, being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came to me.

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "who had uncircumcision