Acts 10:10

Complete Jewish Bible

He began to feel hungry and wanted something to eat; but while they were preparing the meal, he fell into a trance

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He became hungry and wanted to eat, but while they were preparing something, he fell into a trance.

King James Version (1611)
And he became very hungry, and would haue eaten: But while they made ready, he fell into a traunce,

King James Version
And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance,

English Standard Version
And he became hungry and wanted something to eat, but while they were preparing it, he fell into a trance

New American Standard Bible
But he became hungry and wanted to eat; but while they were making preparations, he fell into a trance;

New Century Version
He was hungry and wanted to eat, but while the food was being prepared, he had a vision.

Amplified Bible
but he became hungry and wanted something to eat. While the meal was being prepared he fell into a trance;

New American Standard Bible (1995)
But he became hungry and was desiring to eat; but while they were making preparations, he fell into a trance;

Legacy Standard Bible
But he became hungry and was desiring to eat. And while they were making preparations, he fell into a trance

Berean Standard Bible
He became hungry and wanted something to eat, but while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance.

Contemporary English Version
and became very hungry. While the food was being prepared, he fell sound asleep and had a vision.

Darby Translation
And he became hungry and desired to eat. But as they were making ready an ecstasy came upon him:

Easy-to-Read Version
He was hungry and wanted to eat. But while they were preparing the food for Peter to eat, he had a vision.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then waxed hee an hungred, and would haue eaten: but while they made some thing ready, he fell into a trance.

George Lamsa Translation
And he became hungry, and wanted to eat: but while they were preparing food for him, he was seized with a sudden faintness.

Good News Translation
He became hungry and wanted something to eat; while the food was being prepared, he had a vision.

Lexham English Bible
And he became hungry and wanted to eat. But while they were preparing the food, a trance came over him.

Literal Translation
And he became hungry and wished to taste food . But as they were preparing, an ecstasy fell on him.

American Standard Version
and he became hungry, and desired to eat: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance;

Bible in Basic English
And he was in need of food: but while they were getting it ready, a deep sleep came on him;

Hebrew Names Version
He became hungry and desired to eat, but while they were preparing, he fell into a trance.

International Standard Version
He became very hungry and wanted to eat, and while the foodit">[fn] was being prepared, he fell into a trance

Etheridge Translation
And he hungered, and desired to eat: and while they were preparing for him, there fell upon him an entrancement,

Murdock Translation
And he became hungry, and desired to eat. And while they were providing for him, he fell into a trance.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And whe he waxed hungry, he would haue eaten: But whyle they made redie, he fell into a traunce.

English Revised Version
and he became hungry, and desired to eat: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance;

World English Bible
He became hungry and desired to eat, but while they were preparing, he fell into a trance.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And he became very hungry, and would have eaten; but while they made ready, he fell into a trance,

Weymouth's New Testament
He had become unusually hungry and wished for food; but, while they were preparing it, he fell into a trance.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And whanne he was hungrid, he wolde haue ete. But while thei maden redi, a rauysching of spirit felde on hym;

Update Bible Version
and he became hungry, and desired to eat: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance;

Webster's Bible Translation
And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance,

New English Translation
He became hungry and wanted to eat, but while they were preparing the meal, a trance came over him.

New King James Version
Then he became very hungry and wanted to eat; but while they made ready, he fell into a trance

New Living Translation
and he was hungry. But while a meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance.

New Life Bible
He became very hungry and wanted something to eat. While they were getting food ready to eat, he saw in a dream things God wanted him to see.

New Revised Standard
He became hungry and wanted something to eat; and while it was being prepared, he fell into a trance.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But he became hungry, and wished to eat, - and, while they were making ready, there came upon him a trance;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And being hungry, he was desirous to taste somewhat. And as they were preparing, there came upon him an ecstasy of mind.

Revised Standard Version
And he became hungry and desired something to eat; but while they were preparing it, he fell into a trance

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Then wexed he an hongred and wolde have eate. But whyll they made redy. He fell into a trauce

Young's Literal Translation
and he became very hungry, and wished to eat; and they making ready, there fell upon him a trance,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And whan he was hogrie, he wolde haue eate. But whyle they made ready for him, he fell into a traunce,

Mace New Testament (1729)
and being seiz'd with hunger, he would have had something to eat: but while they were making it ready, he fell into a trance,

Simplified Cowboy Version
he was getting hungry. Food was being prepared in the kitchen and Pete suddenly fell into a trance.

Contextual Overview

⁹ The next day about noon, while they were still on their way and approaching the city, Kefa went up onto the roof of the house to pray. ¹⁰ He began to feel hungry and wanted something to eat; but while they were preparing the meal, he fell into a trance ¹¹ in which he saw heaven opened, and something that looked like a large sheet being lowered to the ground by its four corners. ¹² In it were all kinds of four-footed animals, crawling creatures and wild birds. ¹³ Then a voice came to him, "Get up, Kefa, slaughter and eat!" ¹⁴ But Kefa said, "No, sir! Absolutely not! I have never eaten food that was unclean or treif." ¹⁵ The voice spoke to him a second time: "Stop treating as unclean what God has made clean." ¹⁶ This happened three times, and then the sheet was immediately taken back up into heaven. ¹⁷ Kefa was still puzzling over the meaning of the vision he had seen, when the men Cornelius had sent, having inquired for Shim‘on's house, stood at the gate ¹⁸ and called out to ask if the Shim‘on known as Kefa was staying there.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he became: Matthew 4:2, Matthew 12:1-3, Matthew 21:18

he fell: Acts 22:17, Numbers 24:4, Numbers 24:16, Ezekiel 8:1-3, Ezekiel 11:24, Ezekiel 40:2, 2 Corinthians 12:2-4, Revelation 1:10, Revelation 4:2, Revelation 4:3

Reciprocal: Genesis 15:1 - in Leviticus 11:8 - they are unclean 1 Kings 17:21 - stretched himself Acts 10:13 - Rise Acts 16:9 - a vision

Cross-References

Genesis 11:2
It came about that as they traveled from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shin‘ar and lived there.

Genesis 11:9
For this reason it is called Bavel [confusion] — because there Adonai confused the language of the whole earth, and from there Adonai scattered them all over the earth.

Genesis 14:1
(iv) When Amrafel was king of Shin‘ar, Aryokh king of Elasar, K'dorla‘omer king of ‘Elam and Tid‘al king of Goyim;

Isaiah 10:9
Hasn't Kalno [suffered] like Kark'mish, Hamat like Arpad, Shomron like Dammesek?

Isaiah 11:11
On that day Adonai will raise his hand again, a second time, to reclaim the remnant of his people who remain from Ashur, Egypt, Patros, Ethiopia, ‘Eilam, Shin‘ar, Hamat and the islands in the sea.

Isaiah 39:1
M'rodakh-Bal'adan the son of Bal'adan, king of Bavel, heard that Hizkiyahu had been ill and had recovered, so he sent a letter and a gift to him.

Jeremiah 50:21
"Attack the land of Meratayim; attack it and those living in P'kod. Waste them, utterly destroy them; do all I have ordered you," says Adonai .

Daniel 1:2
and Adonai handed Y'hoyakim king of Y'hudah over to him, along with some of the articles from the house of God. He took them to the land of Shin‘ar, to the house of his god and placed the articles in the storehouse of his god.

Amos 6:2
Travel to Kalneh and see; from there go on to Hamat the great; then go down to Gat of the P'lishtim. Are you better than these kingdoms? Is their territory larger than yours?

Micah 4:10
Be in pain! Work to give birth like a woman in labor, daughter of Tziyon! For now you will go out of the city and live in the wilds till you reach Bavel. There you will be rescued; there Adonai will redeem you from the power of your enemies.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he became very hungry,.... It being in the middle of the day, when it was usual to eat; and perhaps he had ate nothing that day, for those were reckoned the most religious persons, who eat nothing before the Minchah:

and would have eaten; though the Jews say e, a man ought not to eat near the Minchah, not even the least, lest he should continue at it, and so neglect his prayers:

but while they made ready, while Simon's family were getting dinner ready, preparing the food for it:

he fell into a trance; or an ecstasy, or an ecstasy fell upon him; it was what was supernatural, and came from above, and did not arise from any natural cause in him; he was as it were out of the body, and entirely in the spirit; all the bodily organs and senses were shut up, and all sensible objects removed from him; and he was wholly intent on what was proposed to him in the vision, which filled him with wonder and astonishment.

e Maimon. & Bartenora in Misn. Sabbat. ib.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And he became very hungry - Prom the connection, where it is said that they were making ready, that is, preparing a meal, it would seem that this was the customary hour of dining. The Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans, however, had but two meals, and the first was usually taken about ten or eleven o’clock. This meal usually consisted of fruit, milk, cheese, etc. Their principal meal was about six or seven in the afternoon, at which time they observed their feasts. See Jahn’s Bible. Archaeol. section 145.

He fell into a trance - Greek: an ecstasy, ἔκστασις ekstasis, fell upon him. In Acts 11:5, Peter says that in a trance he saw a vision. The word “trance, or ecstasy,” denotes “a state of mind when the attention is absorbed in a particular train of thought, so that the external senses are partially or entirely suspended.” It is a high species of abstraction from external objects, when the mind becomes forgetful of surrounding things, and is fixed solely on its own thoughts, so that appeals to the external senses do not readily rouse it. The soul seems to have passed out of the body, and to be conversant only with spiritual essences. Thus, Balaam is said to have seen the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance Numbers 24:4, Numbers 24:16; thus Paul, in praying in the temple, fell into a trance Acts 22:17; and perhaps a similar state is described in 2 Corinthians 12:2. This effect seems to be caused by so intense and absorbing a train of thought as to overcome the senses of the body, or wholly to withdraw the mind from their influence, and to fix it on the unseen object that engrosses it. It is often a high state of reverie, or absence of mind, which Dr. Rush describes as “induced by the stimulus of ideas of absent subjects, being so powerful as to destroy the perception of present objects” (Diseases of the Mind, p. 310, ed. Philadelphia, 1812). In the case of Peter, however, there was a supernatural influence that drew his attention away from present objects.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 10:10. He became very hungry — It seems that this happened about dinner-time; for it appears that they were making ready, παρασκευαζοντων, dressing the victuals for the family. The dinner among the ancients was a very slight meal; and they had no breakfast: their supper was their principal meal. And, in very ancient times, they ate only once in the day. Supper was the meal at which they saw their friends, the business of the day being then finished.

He fell into a trance — επεπεσεν επ αυτον εκστασις, An ecstasy fell upon him. A person may be said to be in an ecstasy when transported with joy or admiration, so that he is insensible to every object but that on which he is engaged. Peter's ecstasy is easily accounted for: he went up to the house-top to pray: at first he felt keen hunger; but, being earnestly engaged with God, all natural appetites became absorbed in the intense application of his soul to his Maker. While every passion and appetite was under this Divine influence, and the soul, without let or hinderance, freely conversing with God, then the visionary and symbolical representation mentioned here took place.