Acts 10:14
But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.
ASV Byzantine Text
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, Rise, Peter; kill and eat.
15And a voice came unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, make not thou common.
Cross References
Exodus 10:11Not so: go now ye that are men, and serve Jehovah; for that is what ye desire. And they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.
Leviticus 20:25Ye shall therefore make a distinction between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by bird, or by anything wherewith the ground teemeth, which I have separated from you as unclean.
Deuteronomy 14:4These are the beasts which ye may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,
Ezekiel 44:31The priests shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself, or is torn, whether it be bird or beast.
Matthew 16:22And Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall never be unto thee.
Luke 1:60And his mother answered and 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 →