Acts 11:9

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
But a voice answered from heaven a second time, ‘What God has made clean, you must not call impure.’

King James Version (1611)
But the voyce answered me againe from heauen, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.

King James Version
But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.

English Standard Version
But the voice answered a second time from heaven, ‘What God has made clean, do not call common.'

New American Standard Bible
"But a voice from heaven answered a second time, 'What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy.'

New Century Version
But the voice from heaven spoke again, ‘God has made these things clean, so don't call them unholy.'

Amplified Bible
"But the voice from heaven answered a second time, 'What God has cleansed and pronounced clean, no longer consider common (unholy).'

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"But a voice from heaven answered a second time, 'What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy.'

Legacy Standard Bible
But a voice from heaven answered a second time, ‘What God has cleansed, no longer consider defiled.'

Berean Standard Bible
But the voice spoke from heaven a second time, 'Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.'

Contemporary English Version
The voice from heaven spoke to me again, "When God says that something can be used for food, don't say it isn't fit to eat."

Complete Jewish Bible
But the voice spoke again from heaven: ‘Stop treating as unclean what God has made clean.'

Darby Translation
And a voice answered the second time out of heaven, What God has cleansed, do not *thou* make common.

Easy-to-Read Version
"But the voice from heaven answered again, ‘God has made these things pure. Don't say they are unfit to eat!'

Geneva Bible (1587)
But the voyce answered me the seconde time from heauen, The things that God hath purified, pollute thou not.

George Lamsa Translation
But again the voice from heaven said to me, What God has cleansed, do not call unclean.

Good News Translation
The voice spoke again from heaven, ‘Do not consider anything unclean that God has declared clean.'

Lexham English Bible
But the voice replied from heaven for the second time, ‘The things which God has made clean, you must not consider unclean!'

Literal Translation
But a voice answered me the second time out of the heaven, What God has cleansed, you do not make common.

American Standard Version
But a voice answered the second time out of heaven, What God hath cleansed, make not thou common.

Bible in Basic English
But the voice, coming a second time from heaven, said, What God has made clean, do not you make common.

Hebrew Names Version
But a voice answered me the second time out of heaven, 'What God has cleansed, don't you make unholy.'

International Standard Version
Then the voice from heaven answered a second time, 'You must stop calling common what God has made clean!'

Etheridge Translation
And again the voice said to me from heaven, What Aloha hath cleansed make not thou to be polluted.

Murdock Translation
And again, a voice from heaven said to me: What God hath cleansed, make thou not unclean.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
But the voyce aunswered me agayne from heaue: Make them not comon which God hath cleansed.

English Revised Version
But a voice answered the second time out of heaven, What God hath cleansed, make not thou common.

World English Bible
But a voice answered me the second time out of heaven, 'What God has cleansed, don't you make unholy.'

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And the voice from heaven answered me again, What God hath purified, call not thou common.

Weymouth's New Testament
"But a voice answered, speaking a second time from the sky, "`What God has purified, you must not regard as unholy.'

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the vois answeride the secounde tyme fro heuene, That thing that God hath clensid, seie thou not vnclene.

Update Bible Version
But a voice answered the second time out of heaven, What God has cleansed, don't make common.

Webster's Bible Translation
But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God hath cleansed, [that] call not thou common.

New English Translation
But the voice replied a second time from heaven, ‘What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!'

New King James Version
But the voice answered me again from heaven, "What God has cleansed you must not call common.'

New Living Translation
"But the voice from heaven spoke again: ‘Do not call something unclean if God has made it clean.'

New Life Bible
The voice from heaven said the second time, ‘What God has made clean you must not say is unclean.'

New Revised Standard
But a second time the voice answered from heaven, ‘What God has made clean, you must not call profane.'

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And a voice answered, a second time, out of heaven - What things, God, hath cleansed, be not, thou, making common.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the voice answered again from heaven: What God hath made clean, do not thou call common.

Revised Standard Version
But the voice answered a second time from heaven, 'What God has cleansed you must not call common.'

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
But the voyce answered me agayne from heven cout not thou those thinges come which god hath clensed.

Young's Literal Translation
and a voice did answer me a second time out of the heaven, What God did cleanse, thou -- declare not thou common.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Neuertheles the voyce answered me agayne from heauen: What God hath clensed, that call not thou vncleane.

Mace New Testament (1729)
but the voice from heaven address'd it self to me again, and said, don't call that impure, which God has purified.

Simplified Cowboy Version
"But then the voice said, 'It ain't your job to declare something clean or not. If God says to eat it, then it is clean and you can eat it.'

Contextual Overview

¹The news traveled fast and in no time the leaders and friends back in Jerusalem heard about it—heard that the non-Jewish "outsiders" were now "in." When Peter got back to Jerusalem, some of his old associates, concerned about circumcision, called him on the carpet: "What do you think you're doing rubbing shoulders with that crowd, eating what is prohibited and ruining our good name?" ⁴So Peter, starting from the beginning, laid it out for them step-by-step: "Recently I was in the town of Joppa praying. I fell into a trance and saw a vision: Something like a huge blanket, lowered by ropes at its four corners, came down out of heaven and settled on the ground in front of me. Milling around on the blanket were farm animals, wild animals, reptiles, birds—you name it, it was there. Fascinated, I took it all in. ⁷"Then I heard a voice: ‘Go to it, Peter—kill and eat.' I said, ‘Oh, no, Master. I've never so much as tasted food that wasn't kosher.' The voice spoke again: ‘If God says it's okay, it's okay.' This happened three times, and then the blanket was pulled back up into the sky. ¹¹"Just then three men showed up at the house where I was staying, sent from Caesarea to get me. The Spirit told me to go with them, no questions asked. So I went with them, I and six friends, to the man who had sent for me. He told us how he had seen an angel right in his own house, real as his next-door neighbor, saying, ‘Send to Joppa and get Simon, the one they call Peter. He'll tell you something that will save your life—in fact, you and everyone you care for.' ¹⁵"So I started in, talking. Before I'd spoken half a dozen sentences, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as he did on us the first time. I remembered Jesus' words: ‘John baptized with water; you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.' So I ask you: If God gave the same exact gift to them as to us when we believed in the Master Jesus Christ, how could I object to God?" ¹⁸ Hearing it all laid out like that, they quieted down. And then, as it sank in, they started praising God. "It's really happened! God has broken through to the other nations, opened them up to Life!"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

What: Acts 10:28, Acts 10:34, Acts 10:35, Acts 15:9, 1 Timothy 4:5, Hebrews 9:13, Hebrews 9:14

Reciprocal: Joshua 22:19 - unclean Zechariah 14:20 - shall there Matthew 15:11 - that which goeth Acts 7:5 - yet Acts 10:15 - What Romans 14:14 - unclean

Cross-References

Genesis 10:20
These are the descendants of Ham by family, language, country, and nation.

Genesis 11:1
At one time, the whole Earth spoke the same language. It so happened that as they moved out of the east, they came upon a plain in the land of Shinar and settled down.

Genesis 11:14
When Shelah was thirty years old, he had Eber. After Shelah had Eber, he lived 403 more years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:31
Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (Haran's son), and Sarai his daughter-in-law (his son Abram's wife) and set out with them from Ur of the Chaldees for the land of Canaan. But when they got as far as Haran, they settled down there.

Genesis 11:32
Terah lived 205 years. He died in Haran.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But the voice answered me again from heaven,.... From whence the former voice came, and was the voice of the Lord, or of an angel of the Lord, and which answered him again, or

a second time; not that it said to him a second time kill and eat, but what follows;

what God hath cleansed, that call not thou common; that is, had declared to be clean and fit for use, and did not defile, and could not defile the man into whose mouth it entered, and therefore ought not to be pronounced unclean, and of a defiling nature; this Jesus Christ did, who is God over all blessed for ever, and by whose death an end was put to the ceremonial law, and the distinctions of meats by it; Matthew 15:11.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See Acts 10:9-33.