Acts 10:13

13 Then a voice came: "Go to it, Peter - kill and eat."

Acts 10:13 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 10:13

And there came a voice to him
Formed by an angel, or rather by Christ himself:

rise, Peter, kill and eat;
he might be on his knees when he fell into this trance, being at prayer, and therefore is bid to rise; and he is called by name, the more to encourage him to do as he was ordered; and he is bid to kill and eat of all the creatures without distinction, which were represented to him in the sheet; and the design of this was to teach him, that both the distinction between clean and unclean creatures in the law was now abolished, and men might lawfully eat of whatsoever they pleased; and that he might and should without any difference converse with all sorts of men, Jews and Gentiles, circumcised and uncircumcised, and preach the Gospel to one as to another, and maintain a church communion and fellowship with all equally alike.

Acts 10:13 In-Context

11 He saw the skies open up. Something that looked like a huge blanket lowered by ropes at its four corners settled on the ground.

12 Every kind of animal and reptile and bird you could think of was on it.

13 Then a voice came: "Go to it, Peter - kill and eat."

14 Peter said, "Oh, no, Lord. I've never so much as tasted food that was not kosher."

15 The voice came a second time: "If God says it's okay, it's okay."