Chapter 2 Notes
45) Per Ezekiel 4:14, the prophet Ezekiel objected to cooking his food over human excrement during unusual prophetic circumstances, insisting that he had never eaten anything unclean.
46) Mark 5:11
47) Levitical categories also correspond with groups defined in Genesis 1.
48) The Greek phrase, “πάντα τα τετραποδα τής γής” used in Acts 10:12 refers to all (Strong’s G3956) quadrupeds, which includes clean animal varieties per Leviticus 11.
49) The Greek terms used to describe “wild beasts” and “crawling things” (Strong’s G2342 and G2062) refer to unclean animal varieties per Leviticus 11.
50) Strong’s G2839
51) Strong’s G169
52) The original Greek verb (Strong’s G2840) implies that Peter was not merely calling clean things common, but making them common.
53) It is possible that Peter, seeking to avoid fecal contamination from unclean animals, would not eat clean animals corralled in close proximity with unclean animals.
54) Acts 11:2–3
55) Acts 11:1–18
56) Deuteronomy 7:1–3 and 22:2–3 prohibit intermarriage with nations originating from inbred or forbidden relationships, ref. Genesis 9:18, 22, 25; Genesis 19:36–38; Leviticus 18:6–8.
57) Strong’s G169, ακάθαρτος (akathartos), “impure” or “unclean.” The same term is used to describe evil spirits throughout the New Testament, but never people.
58) Leviticus 12 uses Strong’s H2930,
(tamê'), to describe those contaminated with blood or bodily fluids.
59) Possibly from Deuteronomy 26:14
60) Leviticus 19:33–34
61) Genesis 18:2–5
62) Leviticus 19:10
63) Leviticus 12:3
64) Genesis 17:10–27; Exodus 12:44, 48; Leviticus 12:3
65) Probably referring to Antioch, Acts 11:20–22.
66) See Galatians 2:1–9 and Acts 11 for a timeline of the Antioch/Jerusalem visit and for Paul/Barnabas connections, plus Galatians 2:10 and Acts 11:29 for a correlating account of a famine relief appeal.
67) Acts 11:26, 14:21
68) Acts 14:19
69) Acts 15:22 identifies Judas and Silas as leaders in Jerusalem.
70) Acts 15:24–29
71) Acts 15:21
72) Acts 11:26
73) Harvey Falk, Yeshua the Pharisee (Eugene: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2003)