Acts 11:8
And I said: Not so, Lord; for nothing common or unclean hath ever entered into my mouth.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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
7And I heard also a voice saying to me: Arise, Peter; kill and eat.
9And the voice answered again from heaven: What God hath made clean, do not thou call common.
Cross References
Leviticus 11:47That you may know the differences of the clean, and unclean, and know what you ought to eat, and what to refuse.
Hosea 9:3They shall not dwell in the Lord's land: Ephraim is returned to Egypt, and hath eaten unclean things among the Assyrians.
Romans 14:14I know, and am confident in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
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 →