Acts 11:8
But I replied, ‘Absolutely not, Lord! Nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth!’
Free Bible 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 heard a voice that told me, ‘Get up, Peter, kill and eat.’
9The voice from heaven spoke again, and said, ‘Don't you call unclean what God has made clean!’
Cross References
Leviticus 11:47You must recognize the difference between unclean and clean, between those animals that can be eaten and those that can't.”
Hosea 9:3You will not stay in the Lord's land, instead Ephraim will return to Egypt, and will eat unclean food in Assyria.
Romans 14:14I'm certain—persuaded by the Lord Jesus—that nothing in itself is ceremonially unclean. But if someone considers it to be unclean, to them 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 →