Acts 11:10

10 This happened three times, and then it was all pulled up to heaven again.

Acts 11:10 in Other Translations

King James Version (KJV)
10 And this was done three times: and all were drawn up again into heaven.
English Standard Version (ESV)
10 This happened three times, and all was drawn up again into heaven.
New Living Translation (NLT)
10 This happened three times before the sheet and all it contained was pulled back up to heaven.
The Message Bible (MSG)
10 This happened three times, and then the blanket was pulled back up into the sky.
American Standard Version (ASV)
10 And this was done thrice: and all were drawn up again into heaven.
GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)
10 This happened three times. Then everything was pulled back into the sky again.
Holman Christian Standard Bible (CSB)
10 "Now this happened three times, and then everything was drawn up again into heaven.
New International Reader's Version (NIRV)
10 This happened three times. Then the sheet was pulled up 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 replied, ‘Surely not, Lord! Nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’
9 “The voice spoke from heaven a second time, ‘Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.’
10 This happened three times, and then it was all pulled up to heaven again.
11 “Right then three men who had been sent to me from Caesarea stopped at the house where I was staying.
12 The Spirit told me to have no hesitation about going with them. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the man’s house.
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