But a voice answered me for the second time out of heaven, 'What God has cleansed, you must not regard as common.'
in cleansing their hearts by faith he made not the slightest distinction between us and them.
for then it is consecrated by the prayer said over it.
To them Peter said, "You know yourselves it is illegal for a Jew to join or accost anyone belonging to another nation; but God has shown me that I must not call any man common or unclean,
A second time the voice came back to him, "What God has cleansed, you must not regard as common."
It does not enter his heart but his belly and passes from that into the drain" (thus he pronounced all food clean).
I said, 'No, no, my Lord; nothing common or unclean has ever passed my lips.'
This happened three times, and then the whole thing was drawn back into heaven.