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Acts 10:12 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air. "
Acts 10:12
Verse in Context
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And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance,
And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth:
Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat.
But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.
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Acts 10:1
"There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian"
Acts 10:2
"A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway."
Acts 10:3
"He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him, Cornelius."
Acts 10:4
"And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God."
Acts 10:5
"And now send men to Joppa, and call for one Simon, whose surname is Peter:"
Acts 10:6
"He lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea side: he shall tell thee what thou oughtest to do."
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