Peter’s Vision & the Gentile Question

Imagine being invited to a neighbor’s home and saying yes could make you ceremonially unclean in the eyes of God. What would you do? For Peter, this wasn’t a strange or hypothetical fear; it was the reality shaped by Jewish oral law and centuries of tradition. In Acts 10, Peter receives a vision that challenges not only his view of food, but more importantly, his view of people—specifically, the Gentiles. But what exactly did the vision mean? Did God declare all foods clean? Did He allow fellowship with Gentiles?  In this episode, we breakdown Peter’s vision and journey back into the world of a first-century Torah-observant Jew. Through careful examination of the Greek terms "koinos" and "akathartos," Peter’s cultural context, and the continuity of Scripture, this episode invites listeners to rethink long-held assumptions.