Acts 10:10
And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance,
Acts 10:10 in other translations
| BSB | He became hungry and wanted something to eat, but while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. |
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| WEB | He became hungry and desired to eat, but while they were preparing, he fell into a trance. |
| ASV | and he became hungry, and desired to eat: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance; |
| YLT | and he became very hungry, and wished to eat; and they making ready, there fell upon him a trance, |
| DARBY | And he became hungry and desired to eat. But as they were making ready an ecstasy came upon him: |
| BBE | And he was in need of food: but while they were getting it ready, a deep sleep came on him; |
| Webster | And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance, |
What does Acts 10:10 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Acts 10:9-16
9-16. upon the housetop--the flat roof, the chosen place in the East for cool retirement. the sixth hour--noon.
Barnes' Notes
He fell into a trance. Greek, An ecstasy--εκστασις--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, Nu 24:4,16; thus Paul, in praying in the temple, fell into a trance, Acts 22:17 and perhaps a similar state is described in 2Cor 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 revery, 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. Phila. 1812.) In the case of Peter, however, there was a supernatural influence that drew his attention away from present objects.
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 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…
Acts 10:10 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Acts 10:10
- Acts 22:17
And it came to pass, that, when I was come again to Jerusalem, even while I prayed in the temple, I was in a trance;
- Ezekiel 11:24
Afterwards the spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me.
- 2 Corinthians 12:2-4
I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven. And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
- Numbers 24:4
He hath said, which heard the words of God, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:
- Ezekiel 8:1-3
And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord God fell there upon me. Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber. And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.
- Matthew 21:18
Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered.
- Ezekiel 40:2
In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the frame of a city on the south.
- Matthew 12:1-3
At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat. But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day. But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him;
- Revelation 1:10
I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
- Revelation 4:2-3
And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne. And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.
- Numbers 24:16
He hath said, which heard the words of God, and knew the knowledge of the most High, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:
- Matthew 4:2
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
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Context
- Acts 10:9
On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour:
- Acts 10:10
And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance,
- Acts 10:11
And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth:
Acts 10:10 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y aconteció que le vino una grande hambre, y quiso comer; pero mientras disponían, sobrevínole un éxtasis; |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et il eut très faim, et voulut manger; et comme on lui apprêtait à manger, il lui survint une extase. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Er wurde aber hungrig und verlangte zu essen. Während sie ihm aber zubereiteten, kam eine Entzückung über ihn. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Et cum esuriret, voluit gustare. Parantibus autem illis, cecidit super eum mentis excessus: |