12 It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles and birds.
12 Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
12 In it were all kinds of animals and reptiles and birds of the air.
12 Every kind of animal and reptile and bird you could think of was on it.
12 In it were all kinds of four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, creeping things, and birds of the air.
12 In the sheet were all sorts of animals, reptiles, and birds.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Acts 10:12
Commentary on Acts 10:9-18
(Read Acts 10:9-18)
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.