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

So when Peter came up to Jerusalem, the circumcision party fell foul of him.

But he said to me, 'Go; I will send you afar to the Gentiles ????'"

The Samaritan woman said, "What? You are a Jew, and you ask me for a drink ??me, a Samaritan!" (Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)

Then from the house of Caiaphas they took Jesus to the praetorium. (It was early morning.) They would not enter the praetorium themselves, in case of being ceremonially defiled, for they wanted to eat the passover;

Before certain emissaries of James arrived, he ate along with the Gentile Christians; but when they arrived, he began to draw back and hold aloof, because he was afraid of the circumcision party.

But

A second time the voice came back to him, "What God has cleansed, you must not regard as common."

But a voice answered me for the second time out of heaven, 'What God has cleansed, you must not regard as common.'

The God who reads the hearts of all attested this by giving them the holy Spirit just as he gave it to us;

The Pharisee stood up and prayed by himself as follows; 'I thank thee, O God, I am not like the rest of men, thieves, rogues, and immoral, or even like yon taxgatherer.

namely, that in Christ Jesus the Gentiles are co-heirs, companions, and co-partners in the Promise.

General references

"You went into the houses of the uncircumcised," they said, "and you ate with them!"