Acts 10:14
“No, Lord!” Peter answered. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.”
Berean Standard Bible
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
13Then a voice said to him: “Get up, Peter, kill and eat!”
15The voice spoke to him a second time: “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”
Cross References
Exodus 10:11No, only the men may go and worship the LORD, since that is what you have been requesting.” And Moses and Aaron were driven from Pharaoh’s presence.
Leviticus 20:25You are therefore to distinguish between clean and unclean animals and birds. Do not become contaminated by any animal or bird, or by anything that crawls on the ground; I have set these apart as unclean for you.
Deuteronomy 14:4These are the animals that you may eat: The ox, the sheep, the goat,
Ezekiel 44:31The priests may not eat any bird or animal found dead or torn by wild beasts.
Matthew 16:22Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him. “Far be it from You, Lord!” he said. “This shall never happen to You!”
Luke 1:60But his mother replied, “No! 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 →