Acts 11:7

7 And I also heard a voice saying to me, 'Get up, Peter, slaughter and eat!'

Acts 11:7 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 11:7

And I heard a voice saying unto me
As he apprehended in his mind; and this voice he heard in the same sense and manner, as the Apostle Paul heard when in a trance, ( Acts 22:17 Acts 22:18 ) ( 2 Corinthians 12:4 ) .

arise, Peter, slay and eat;
that is, get up and slay some of these creatures upon the sheet, and dress them and eat them.

Acts 11:7 In-Context

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.

6 [As I] looked intently into it, I was considering [it], and I saw the four-footed animals of the earth and the wild animals and the reptiles and the birds of the sky.

7 And I also heard a voice saying to me, 'Get up, Peter, slaughter and eat!'

8 But I said, 'Certainly not, Lord! For nothing common or unclean has ever entered into my mouth!'

9 But the voice replied from heaven for the second time, '[The things] which God has made clean, you must not consider unclean!'