Acts 10:11

He ¹  saw heaven ²  opened ³  and an object something like a large sheet ⁴  descending, ⁵  being let down to earth ⁶  by its four corners.

Ge 49:10; Isa 11:6-14; Isa 19:23-25; Isa 43:6; Isa 56:8; Eze 1:1; Mt 8:11; Mt 13:47,48; Lu 3:21; Joh 1:51; Joh 11:52; Joh 12:32; Ac 7:56; Ro 1:16; Ro 3:29-31; Ro 9:4; Ro 15:9-12; Ro 16:25,26; Ga 2:15; Ga 3:28; Eph 1:10; Eph 3:6; Col 3:11; Re 4:1; Re 11:19; Re 19:11

¹ tn Grk “And he.” Because of the length of the Greek sentence, the conjunction καί (kai) has not been translated here. Instead a new English sentence is begun.

² tn Or “the sky” (the same Greek word means both “heaven” and “sky”).

³ tn On the heavens “opening,” see Matt 3:16; Luke 3:21; Rev 19:11 (cf. BDAG 84 s.v. ἀνοίγω 2). This is the language of a vision or a revelatory act of God.

⁴ tn Or “a large linen cloth” (the term was used for the sail of a ship; BDAG 693 s.v. ὀθόνη).

⁵ tn Or “coming down.”

⁶ tn Or “to the ground.”