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Acts 10:13 KJV
Acts · chapter 10 · verse 13
And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat.Acts 10:13 · King James Version
Acts 10:13 in context
11And 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:
12Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
13And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat.
14But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.
15And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- voicephōnēa sound, a tone, of inanimate things, as musical instruments, a voice, of the sound of…G5456 →
- PeterpetrosPeter = " a rock or a stone" , one of the twelve disciples of JesusG4074 →
- cameginomaito becomeG1096 →
- Riseanistēmito cause to rise up, raise up, raise up from laying down, to raise up from the dead, to…G450 →
- killthyōto sacrifice, immolate, to slay, kill, of the paschal lamb, slaughterG2380 →
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Cornelius had received positive orders from heaven to send for Peter, whom otherwise he had not heard of, or at least not heeded; but here is another difficulty that lies in the way of bringing them together - the question is whether Peter will come to Cornelius when he is sent for;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 9-18