Acts 11:8
and I said, Not so, Lord, because anything common or unclean has at no time entered into my mouth;
Literal Standard 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
7and I heard a voice saying to me, Having risen, Peter, slay and eat;
9and a voice answered me a second time out of Heaven, What God cleansed, you do not declare common.
Cross References
Leviticus 11:47to make separation between the unclean and the pure, and between the beast that is eaten, and the beast that is not eaten.”
Hosea 9:3They do not abide in the land of YHWH, || And Ephraim has turned back [to] Egypt, || And they eat an unclean thing in Asshur.
Romans 14:14I have known, and am persuaded, in the Lord Jesus, that nothing [is] unclean of itself, except to him who is reckoning anything to be unclean—to that one [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 →