Acts 11:8
But I said: ‘Never, lord! For what is common or unclean has never entered into my mouth.’
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth.
In Context
7Then I also heard a voice saying to me: ‘Rise up, Peter. Kill and eat.’
Cross References
Leviticus 11:47so that you may know the difference between clean and unclean, and so that you may know what you ought to eat, and what you ought to refuse.
Hosea 9:3They will not dwell in the land of the Lord. Ephraim has been returned to Egypt, and he has eaten polluted things among the Assyrians.
Romans 14:14I know, with confidence in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in and of itself. But to him who considers anything to be unclean, it is unclean to him.
Matthew Henry on Acts 11:2-19
Peter's Vindication. 1 And the apostles and brethren that were in Judæa heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God. 2 And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that were of the circumcision contended with him, 3 Saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them. 4 But Peter rehearsed the matter from the beginning, and expounded it by order unto them, saying, 5 I was in the city of Joppa praying: and in a trance I saw a vision, A certain vessel descend, as it had been a great… Read the whole commentary →