Acts 11:10

10 This happened three times. Then everything was pulled back into the sky again.

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 "But I answered, 'I can't do that, Lord! I've never put anything impure or unclean into my mouth.'
9 "A voice spoke from heaven a second time, 'Don't say that the things which God has made clean are impure.'
10 This happened three times. Then everything was pulled back into the sky again.
11 "At that moment three men arrived at the house where we were staying. They had been sent from Caesarea to find me.
12 The Spirit told me to go with them without any hesitation. Six believers [from Joppa] went with me, and we visited Cornelius' home.
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