Acts 10:16

This was done three times, and immediately the vessel was received up into heaven.

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WEBBE

This was done three times, and immediately the thing was received up into heaven.

BSB

This happened three times, and all at once the sheet was taken back up into heaven.

KJV

This was done thrice: and the vessel was received up again into heaven.

ASV

And this was done thrice: and straightway the vessel was received up into heaven.

BBE

And this was done three times: and then the vessel was taken back into heaven.

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τοῦτο touto This G3778 δὲ de now G1161 ἐγένετο egeneto took place G1096 ἐπὶ epi for G1909 τρίς tris three times G5151 καὶ kai and G2532 εὐθὺς euthus immediately G2112 ἀνελήμφθη anelēmphthē was taken up G353 τὸ to the G3588 σκεῦος skeuos vessel G4632 εἰς eis into G1519 τὸν ton (the) G3588 οὐρανόν ouranon heaven G3772

The early church

"This was done thrice: and the vessel was received up again into heaven." For, that it may not seem to be a mere fancy, "this was done thrice." And yet it was the same Lord that had discoursed above in the Law concerning things clean and unclean. But in that sheet were also all the four-footed beasts of the earth: the clean with the unclean.
John Chrysostom · d. 407Homilies on Acts

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 9–18

The prejudices of Peter against the Gentiles, would have prevented his going to Cornelius, unless the Lord had prepared him for this service. To tell a Jew that God had directed those animals to be reckoned clean which were hitherto deemed unclean, was in effect saying, that the law of Moses was done away. Peter was soon made to know the meaning of it. God knows what services are before us, and how to prepare us; and we know the meaning of what he has taught us, when we find what occasion we have to make use of it.

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