Acts 11:8
I said, “Not so, Lord; for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.”
Unlocked Literal Bible
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 say to me, “Get up, Peter; kill and eat!”
9But the voice answered again from heaven, “What God has declared clean, do not call unclean.”
Cross References
Leviticus 11:47for which a distinction is to be made between the unclean and the clean, and between the living things that may be eaten and the living things that may not be eaten.'”
Hosea 9:3They will not continue to live in Yahweh's land; 1 instead, Ephraim will return to Egypt, 1 and one day they will eat unclean food in Assyria. 1
Romans 14:14I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean by itself. Only for him who considers anything to be unclean, for him 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 →