Acts 10:28 Cross References

Acts 10:28

28: Peter told them, "You know it is against the Jewish laws for me to come into a Gentile home like this. But God has shown me that I should never think of anyone as impure.

John 4:9

  1. The woman was surprised, for Jews refuse to have anything to do with Samaritans. She said to Jesus, "You are a Jew, and I am a Samaritan woman. Why are you asking me for a drink?"

Ephesians 3:6

  1. And this is the secret plan: The Gentiles have an equal share with the Jews in all the riches inherited by God's children. Both groups have believed the Good News, and both are part of the same body and enjoy together the promise of blessings through Christ Jesus.
  2. By God's special favor and mighty power, I have been given the wonderful privilege of serving him by spreading this Good News.

John 18:28

  1. Jesus' trial before Caiaphas ended in the early hours of the morning. Then he was taken to the headquarters of the Roman governor. His accusers didn't go in themselves because it would defile them, and they wouldn't be allowed to celebrate the Passover feast.

Acts 15:8

  1. God, who knows people's hearts, confirmed that he accepts Gentiles by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as he gave him to us.
  2. He made no distinction between us and them, for he also cleansed their hearts through faith.

John 4:27

  1. Just then his disciples arrived. They were astonished to find him talking to a woman, but none of them asked him why he was doing it or what they had been discussing.

Galatians 2:12

  1. When he first arrived, he ate with the Gentile Christians, who don't bother with circumcision. But afterward, when some Jewish friends of James came, Peter wouldn't eat with the Gentiles anymore because he was afraid of what these legalists would say.
  2. Then the other Jewish Christians followed Peter's hypocrisy, and even Barnabas was influenced to join them in their hypocrisy.
  3. When I saw that they were not following the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter in front of all the others, "Since you, a Jew by birth, have discarded the Jewish laws and are living like a Gentile, why are you trying to make these Gentiles obey the Jewish laws you abandoned?

Isaiah 65:5

  1. Yet they say to each other, `Don't come too close or you will defile me! I am holier than you!' They are a stench in my nostrils, an acrid smell that never goes away.

Acts 11:9

  1. "But the voice from heaven came again, 'If God says something is acceptable, don't say it isn't.'

Acts 22:21

  1. "But the Lord said to me, 'Leave Jerusalem, for I will send you far away to the Gentiles!'"
  2. The crowd listened until Paul came to that word; then with one voice they shouted, "Away with such a fellow! Kill him! He isn't fit to live!"

Luke 18:11

  1. The proud Pharisee stood by himself and prayed this prayer: 'I thank you, God, that I am not a sinner like everyone else, especially like that tax collector over there! For I never cheat, I don't sin, I don't commit adultery,

Acts 11:2

  1. But when Peter arrived back in Jerusalem, some of the Jewish believers criticized him.
  2. "You entered the home of Gentiles and even ate with them!" they said.

Acts 10:34

  1. Then Peter replied, "I see very clearly that God doesn't show partiality.
  2. In every nation he accepts those who fear him and do what is right.

Acts 10:14

  1. "Never, Lord," Peter declared. "I have never in all my life eaten anything forbidden by our Jewish laws. "
  2. The voice spoke again, "If God says something is acceptable, don't say it isn't."
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