Acts 10:14
But Peter said: Far be it from me; for I never did eat any thing that is common and unclean.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.
In Context
13And there came a voice to him: Arise, Peter; kill and eat.
Cross References
Exodus 10:11It shall not be so: but go ye men only, and sacrifice to the Lord: for this yourselves also desired. And immediately they were cast out from Pharao's presence.
Leviticus 20:25Therefore do you also separate the clean beast from the unclean, and the clean fowl from the unclean: defile not your souls with beasts, or birds, or any things that move on the earth, and which I have shewn you to be unclean.
Deuteronomy 14:4These are the beasts that you shall eat, the ox, and the sheep, and the goat,
Ezekiel 44:31The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself or caught by a beast, whether it be fowl or cattle.
Matthew 16:22And Peter taking him, began to rebuke him, saying: Lord, be it far from thee, this shall not be unto thee.
Luke 1:60And his mother answering, said: Not so; but he shall be called John.
Matthew Henry on Acts 10:10-19
Peter's Vision. 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: 10 And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance, 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: 12 Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of… Read the whole commentary →