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Revised Standard Version

Acts 11:3

saying, "Why did you go to uncircumcised men and eat with them?"

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Bigotry;   Gentiles;   Peter;   Thompson Chain Reference - Prejudice;   Racial Prejudice;   Uncircumcised, the;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Circumcision;   Gentiles;   Jews, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Caesarea;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Apostle;   Gentile;   Jerusalem;   Law;   Peter;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Legalism;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Baptism ;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Abomination;   Clean;   Peter;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Paul;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Acts;   1 Peter;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Galatians, Epistle to the;   Mark, Gospel According to;   Proselyte;   Vision;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Antioch ;   Law;   Missions;   Peter;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Circumcision;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   Kingdom or Church of Christ, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Cornelius;   Defile;   Gentiles;   Ministry;   Uncircumcised;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Christianity in Its Relation to Judaism;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
saying, “You went to uncircumcised men and ate with them.”
King James Version (1611)
Saying, Thou wentest in to men vncircumcised, & didst eate with them.
King James Version
Saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them.
English Standard Version
"You went to uncircumcised men and ate with them."
New American Standard Bible
saying, "You went to uncircumcised men and ate with them."
New Century Version
They said, "You went into the homes of people who are not circumcised and ate with them!"
Amplified Bible
saying, "You went to uncircumcised men and [even] ate with them!"
New American Standard Bible (1995)
saying, "You went to uncircumcised men and ate with them."
Legacy Standard Bible
saying, "You went to uncircumcised men and ate with them."
Berean Standard Bible
and said, "You visited uncircumcised men and ate with them."
Contemporary English Version
they said, "You stayed in the homes of Gentiles, and you even ate with them!"
Complete Jewish Bible
saying, "You went into the homes of uncircumcised men and even ate with them!"
Darby Translation
saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised and hast eaten with them.
Easy-to-Read Version
They said, "You went into the homes of people who are not Jews and are not circumcised, and you even ate with them!"
Geneva Bible (1587)
Saying, Thou wentest in to men vncircumcised, and hast eaten with them.
George Lamsa Translation
Saying he had entered into the houses of uncircumcised men and had eaten with them.
Good News Translation
"You were a guest in the home of uncircumcised Gentiles, and you even ate with them!"
Lexham English Bible
saying, "You went to men who were uncircumcised and ate with them!"
Literal Translation
saying, You went in to uncircumcised men and ate with them.
American Standard Version
saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them.
Bible in Basic English
Saying, You went to men without circumcision, and took food with them.
Hebrew Names Version
saying, "You went in to uncircumcised men, and ate with them!"
International Standard Version
They said, "You went to uncircumcised men and ate with them!"Acts 10:28; Galatians 2:12;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
saying, that unto men uncircumcised he had entered, and had eaten with them.
Murdock Translation
saying; that he had gone in to be with uncircumcised persons, and had eaten with them.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Saying: Thou wentest in to men vncircucised, & diddest eate with them.
English Revised Version
saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them.
World English Bible
saying, "You went in to uncircumcised men, and ate with them!"
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
and didst eat with them.
Weymouth's New Testament
"You went into the houses of men who are not Jews," they said, "and you ate with them."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and seiden, Whi entridist thou to men that han prepucie, and hast eete with hem?
Update Bible Version
saying, You went in to uncircumcised men, and ate with them.
Webster's Bible Translation
Saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them.
New English Translation
saying, "You went to uncircumcised men and shared a meal with them."
New King James Version
saying, "You went in to uncircumcised men and ate with them!"
New Living Translation
"You entered the home of Gentiles and even ate with them!" they said.
New Life Bible
They said, "Why did you visit those people who are not Jews and eat with them?"
New Revised Standard
saying, "Why did you go to uncircumcised men and eat with them?"
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Saying - he went in unto men uncircumcised, and did eat with them.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Saying: Why didst thou go in to men uncircumcised and didst eat with them?
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
sayinge: Thou wentest in to men vncircumcised and atest with them.
Young's Literal Translation
saying -- `Unto men uncircumcised thou didst go in, and didst eat with them!'
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and sayde: Thou wentest in to men that are vncircumcysed, and hast eaten with them.
Mace New Testament (1729)
and ask'd him, why did you go to eat with the uncircumcised?
Simplified Cowboy Version
"What do you think you are doing going in a Gentile's house?" they accused.

Contextual Overview

1 Now the apostles and the brethren who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. 2 So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcision party criticized him, 3 saying, "Why did you go to uncircumcised men and eat with them?" 4 But Peter began and explained to them in order: 5 "I was in the city of Joppa praying; and in a trance I saw a vision, something descending, like a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners; and it came down to me. 6 Looking at it closely I observed animals and beasts of prey and reptiles and birds of the air. 7 And I heard a voice saying to me, 'Rise, Peter; kill and eat.' 8 But I said, 'No, Lord; for nothing common or unclean has ever entered my mouth.' 9 But the voice answered a second time from heaven, 'What God has cleansed you must not call common.' 10 This happened three times, and all was drawn up again into heaven.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Acts 10:23, Acts 10:28, Acts 10:48, Luke 15:2, 1 Corinthians 5:11, 2 John 1:10

Reciprocal: Joshua 22:12 - the whole Matthew 20:11 - they murmured John 18:28 - and they Acts 10:45 - they Romans 2:26 - General Galatians 2:12 - he did Galatians 2:14 - If thou Colossians 2:16 - in meat 1 Thessalonians 2:16 - Forbidding

Cross-References

Genesis 11:4
Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth."
Genesis 11:6
And the LORD said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do; and nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.
Genesis 11:7
Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."
Genesis 11:18
When Peleg had lived thirty years, he became the father of Re'u;
Genesis 14:10
Now the Valley of Siddim was full of bitumen pits; and as the kings of Sodom and Gomor'rah fled, some fell into them, and the rest fled to the mountain.
Exodus 1:14
and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field; in all their work they made them serve with rigor.
Exodus 2:3
And when she could hide him no longer she took for him a basket made of bulrushes, and daubed it with bitumen and pitch; and she put the child in it and placed it among the reeds at the river's brink.
2 Samuel 12:31
And he brought forth the people who were in it, and set them to labor with saws and iron picks and iron axes, and made them toil at the brickkilns; and thus he did to all the cities of the Ammonites. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
Psalms 64:5
They hold fast to their evil purpose; they talk of laying snares secretly, thinking, "Who can see us?
Proverbs 1:11
If they say, "Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us wantonly ambush the innocent;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Saying, thou wentest into men uncircumcised,.... Into the houses of such, and lodged with them, and familiarly conversed with them:

and didst eat with them; which, according to the traditions of the Jews, were unlawful; :- they say nothing about his preaching to them, and baptizing them, because these were so manifestly agreeable to the commission of Christ, in Matthew 28:19 and yet how these could be without the other, is not easy to say.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And didst eat with them - See the notes on Acts 10:13-14.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 11:3. Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised — In a Jew, this was no small offense; and, as they did not know the reason of St. Peter's conduct, it is no wonder they should call him to account for it, as they considered it to be a positive transgression of the law and custom of the Jews. There is a remarkable addition here in the Codex Bezae, which it will be well to notice. The second verse of the chapter begins thus:-

Now Peter had a desire for a considerable time to go to Jerusalem: and having spoken to the brethren, and confirmed them, speaking largely, he taught them through the countries, (i.e. as he passed to Jerusalem,) and, as he met them, he spoke to them of the grace of God. But the brethren who were of the circumcision disputed with him, saying, &c.


 
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