Acts 10:14
But Peter said, “Surely not, Lord! For I have never eaten anything that is defiled or unclean.”
Text-Critical English NT
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 came to him: “Rise, Peter, kill and eat.”
15The voice came to him again a second time: “Do not regard as defiled what God has made clean.”
Cross References
Matthew 16:22So Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, “God forbid, Lord! This shall certainly not happen to yoʋ.”
Luke 1:60But the child's mother responded, “No! He is to 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 →