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Acts 11:3

and said, "You visited uncircumcised men and ate with them."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Bigotry;   Gentiles;   Peter;   Thompson Chain Reference - Prejudice;   Racial Prejudice;   Uncircumcised, the;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Circumcision;   Gentiles;   Jews, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Caesarea;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Apostle;   Gentile;   Jerusalem;   Law;   Peter;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Legalism;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Baptism ;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Abomination;   Clean;   Peter;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Paul;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Acts;   1 Peter;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Galatians, Epistle to the;   Mark, Gospel According to;   Proselyte;   Vision;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Antioch ;   Law;   Missions;   Peter;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Circumcision;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   Kingdom or Church of Christ, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Cornelius;   Defile;   Gentiles;   Ministry;   Uncircumcised;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Christianity in Its Relation to Judaism;  

Parallel Translations

Simplified Cowboy Version
"What do you think you are doing going in a Gentile's house?" they accused.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
saying, "You went to uncircumcised men and ate with them."
Legacy Standard Bible
saying, "You went to uncircumcised men and ate with them."
Bible in Basic English
Saying, You went to men without circumcision, and took food with them.
Darby Translation
saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised and hast eaten with them.
New King James Version
saying, "You went in to uncircumcised men and ate with them!"
Christian Standard Bible®
saying, "You visited uncircumcised men and ate with them!"
World English Bible
saying, "You went in to uncircumcised men, and ate with them!"
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
and didst eat with them.
Weymouth's New Testament
"You went into the houses of men who are not Jews," they said, "and you ate with them."
King James Version (1611)
Saying, Thou wentest in to men vncircumcised, & didst eate with them.
Literal Translation
saying, You went in to uncircumcised men and ate with them.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and sayde: Thou wentest in to men that are vncircumcysed, and hast eaten with them.
Mace New Testament (1729)
and ask'd him, why did you go to eat with the uncircumcised?
Amplified Bible
saying, "You went to uncircumcised men and [even] ate with them!"
American Standard Version
saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them.
Revised Standard Version
saying, "Why did you go to uncircumcised men and eat with them?"
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
sayinge: Thou wentest in to men vncircumcised and atest with them.
Update Bible Version
saying, You went in to uncircumcised men, and ate with them.
Webster's Bible Translation
Saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them.
Young's Literal Translation
saying -- `Unto men uncircumcised thou didst go in, and didst eat with them!'
New Century Version
They said, "You went into the homes of people who are not circumcised and ate with them!"
New English Translation
saying, "You went to uncircumcised men and shared a meal with them."
Contemporary English Version
they said, "You stayed in the homes of Gentiles, and you even ate with them!"
Complete Jewish Bible
saying, "You went into the homes of uncircumcised men and even ate with them!"
English Standard Version
"You went to uncircumcised men and ate with them."
Geneva Bible (1587)
Saying, Thou wentest in to men vncircumcised, and hast eaten with them.
George Lamsa Translation
Saying he had entered into the houses of uncircumcised men and had eaten with them.
Hebrew Names Version
saying, "You went in to uncircumcised men, and ate with them!"
International Standard Version
They said, "You went to uncircumcised men and ate with them!"Acts 10:28; Galatians 2:12;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
saying, that unto men uncircumcised he had entered, and had eaten with them.
Murdock Translation
saying; that he had gone in to be with uncircumcised persons, and had eaten with them.
New Living Translation
"You entered the home of Gentiles and even ate with them!" they said.
New Life Bible
They said, "Why did you visit those people who are not Jews and eat with them?"
English Revised Version
saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them.
New Revised Standard
saying, "Why did you go to uncircumcised men and eat with them?"
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Saying - he went in unto men uncircumcised, and did eat with them.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Saying: Why didst thou go in to men uncircumcised and didst eat with them?
King James Version
Saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them.
Lexham English Bible
saying, "You went to men who were uncircumcised and ate with them!"
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Saying: Thou wentest in to men vncircucised, & diddest eate with them.
Easy-to-Read Version
They said, "You went into the homes of people who are not Jews and are not circumcised, and you even ate with them!"
New American Standard Bible
saying, "You went to uncircumcised men and ate with them."
Good News Translation
"You were a guest in the home of uncircumcised Gentiles, and you even ate with them!"
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and seiden, Whi entridist thou to men that han prepucie, and hast eete with hem?

Contextual Overview

1The apostles and brothers throughout Judea soon heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. 2So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers took issue with him 3and said, "You visited uncircumcised men and ate with them."4But Peter began and explained to them the whole sequence of events: 5"I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision of something like a large sheet being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came right down to me. 6I looked at it closely and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, reptiles, and birds of the air. 7Then I heard a voice saying to me, 'Get up, Peter, kill and eat.' 8'No, Lord,' I said, 'for nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.' 9But the voice spoke from heaven a second time, 'Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.' 10This happened three times, and everything was drawn back up into heaven.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Acts 10:23, Acts 10:28, Acts 10:48, Luke 15:2, 1 Corinthians 5:11, 2 John 1:10

Reciprocal: Joshua 22:12 - the whole Matthew 20:11 - they murmured John 18:28 - and they Acts 10:45 - they Romans 2:26 - General Galatians 2:12 - he did Galatians 2:14 - If thou Colossians 2:16 - in meat 1 Thessalonians 2:16 - Forbidding

Cross-References

Genesis 11:4
"Come," they said, "let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth."
Genesis 11:6
And the LORD said, "If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.
Genesis 11:7
Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another's speech."
Genesis 11:18
When Peleg was 30 years old, he became the father of Reu.
Genesis 14:10
Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some men fell into the pits, but the survivors fled to the hill country.
Exodus 1:14
and made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar, and with all kinds of work in the fields. Every service they imposed was harsh.
Exodus 2:3
But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in the basket and set it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.
2 Samuel 12:31
David brought out the people who were there and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes, and he made them work at the brick kilns. He did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.
Psalms 64:5
They hold fast to their evil purpose; they speak of hiding their snares. "Who will see them?" they say.
Proverbs 1:11
If they say, "Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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; :- 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 and yet how these could be without the other, is not easy to say.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And didst eat with them - See the notes on Acts 10:13-14.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 11:3. Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised — In a Jew, this was no small offense; and, as they did not know the reason of St. Peter's conduct, it is no wonder they should call him to account for it, as they considered it to be a positive transgression of the law and custom of the Jews. There is a remarkable addition here in the Codex Bezae, which it will be well to notice. The second verse of the chapter begins thus:-

Now Peter had a desire for a considerable time to go to Jerusalem: and having spoken to the brethren, and confirmed them, speaking largely, he taught them through the countries, (i.e. as he passed to Jerusalem,) and, as he met them, he spoke to them of the grace of God. But the brethren who were of the circumcision disputed with him, saying, &c.


 
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