Acts 10:28

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Summary

And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean.

That it

Galatians 2:12

But

Ephesians 3:6

General references

Acts 11:3

Bible References

That it

and when Peter returned to Jerusalem, the advocates of circumcision took him to task,

But he said to me, 'Go! I will send you far away to the heathen.' "

So the Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that a Jew like you asks a Samaritan woman like me for a drink?" For Jews have nothing to do with Samaritans.

Then they took Jesus from Caiaphas to the governor's house. It was early in the morning, and they would not go into the governor's house themselves, to avoid being ceremonially defiled and to be able to eat the Passover supper.

For until some people came from James, he used to eat with the heathen, but after they came, he began to draw back and hold aloof, for fear of the party of circumcision.

But

The voice came to him again a second time, "Do not call what God has cleansed unclean."

Then the voice from heaven answered again, 'Do not call what God has cleansed unclean!'

And God who knows men's hearts testified for them by giving them the holy Spirit just as he had done to us,

The Pharisee stood up and uttered this prayer to himself: 'O God, I thank you that I am not like other men, greedy, dishonest, or adulterous, like that tax-collector.

that through union with Christ Jesus the heathen are fellow-heirs with the Jews, belong to the same body and share the promise with them, through the good news

General references

charging him with having visited and eaten with men who were not Jews.