Acts 10:11
9 The next day at about the sixth hour, as the men were approaching the city on their journey, Peter went up on the roof to pray.
10 He became hungry and wanted something to eat, but while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance.
He saw heaven open and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners.
12 It contained all kinds of four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth, as well as birds of the air.
13 Then a voice said to him: “Get up, Peter, kill and eat!”
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- He saw heaven open and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners.
- KJV
- 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:
- WEB
- He saw heaven opened and a certain container descending to him, like a great sheet let down by four corners on the earth,
- ASV
- and he beholdeth the heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending, as it were a great sheet, let down by four corners upon the earth:
- DARBY
- and he beholds the heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending, as a great sheet, [bound] by [the] four corners [and] let down to the earth;
- BLB
- and he sees heaven opening and a certain vessel as a great sheet descending, being let down upon the earth by four corners,
- ÅB
- og han ser himmelen åpnet og noe dale ned, slik som en stor duk, som ble senket ned på jorden etter de fire hjørner;
- OTB
- Han så himmelen åpnet og noe som lignet et stort laken bli senket ned til jorden ved de fire hjørnene.
- B1930
- og han ser himmelen åpnet og noget dale ned, likesom en stor duk, som blev senket ned på jorden efter de fire hjørner;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ephesians 3:6
This mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are fellow heirs, fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus.
Read in contextJohn 1:51
Then He declared, “Truly, truly, I tell you, you will all see heaven open and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”
Read in contextRomans 16:25–26
Now to Him who is able to strengthen you by my gospel and by the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery concealed for ages past
Read in contextIsaiah 11:6–14
The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the goat; the calf and young lion and fatling will be together, and a little child will lead them.
Read in contextRevelation 4:1
After this I looked and saw a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had previously heard speak to me like a trumpet was saying, “Come up here, and I will show you what must happen after these things.”
Read in contextJohn 12:32
And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw everyone to Myself.”
Read in contextActs 7:56
“Look,” he said, “I see heaven open and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.”
Read in contextIsaiah 56:8
Thus declares the Lord GOD, who gathers the dispersed of Israel: “I will gather to them still others besides those already gathered.”
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