Acts 10:10

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.

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.

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

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;

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 And on the next day, whilst they were going on their journey and drawing nigh to the city, Peter went up to the higher parts of the house to pray, about the sixth hour. ¹⁰ And being hungry, he was desirous to taste somewhat. And as they were preparing, there came upon him an ecstasy of mind. ¹¹ And he saw the heaven opened and a certain vessel descending, as it were a great linen sheet let down by the four corners from heaven to the earth: ¹² Wherein were all manner of four-footed beasts and creeping things of the earth and fowls of the air. ¹³ And there came a voice to him: Arise, Peter. Kill and eat. ¹⁴ But Peter said: Far be it from me. For I never did eat any thing that is common and unclean. ¹⁵ And the voice spoke to him again the second time: That which God hath cleansed, do not thou call common. ¹⁶ And this was done thrice. And presently the vessel was taken up into heaven. ¹⁷ Now, whilst Peter was doubting within himself what the vision that he had seen should mean, behold the men who were sent from Cornelius, inquiring for Simon’s house, stood at the gate. ¹⁸ And when they had called, they asked if Simon, who is surnamed Peter, were lodged 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
And when they removed from the east, they found a plain in the land of Sennaar, and dwelt in it.

Genesis 11:9
And therefore the name thereof was called Babel, because there the language of the whole earth was confounded: and from thence the Lord scattered them abroad upon the face of all countries.

Genesis 14:1
And it came to pass at that time, that Amraphel, king of Sennaar, and Arioch, king of Pontus, and Chodorlahomor, king of the Elamites, and Thadal, king of nations,

Isaiah 10:9
Are not my princes as so many kings? is not Calano as Charcamis: and Emath as Arphad? is not Samaria as Damascus?

Isaiah 11:11
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand the second time to possess the remnant of his people, which shall be left from the Assyrians, and from Egypt, and from Phetros, and from Ethiopia, and from Elam, and from Sennaar, and from Emath, and from the islands of the sea.

Isaiah 39:1
At that time Merodach Baladan, the son of Baladan king of Babylon, sent letters and presents to Ezechias: for he had heard that he had been sick and was recovered.

Jeremiah 50:21
Go up against the land of the rulers, and punish the inhabitants thereof, waste, and destroy all behind them, saith the Lord: and do according to all that I have commanded thee.

Daniel 1:2
And the Lord delivered into his hands Joakim, the king of Juda, and part of the vessels of the house of God: and he carried them away into the land of Sennaar, to the house of his god, and the vessels he brought into the treasure house of his god.

Amos 6:2
Pass ye over to Chalane, and see, and go from thence into Emath the great: and go down into Geth of the Philistines, and to all the best kingdoms of these: if their border be larger than your border.

Micah 4:10
Be in pain and labour, O daughter of Sion, as a woman that bringeth forth: for now shalt thou go out of the city, and shalt dwell in the country, and shalt come even to Babylon, there thou shalt be delivered: there the Lord will redeem thee out of the hand of thy 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.