Acts 10:14
But Peter said, No, Lord; for I have never taken food which is common or unclean.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
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
13And a voice came to him, saying, Come, Peter; take them for food.
15And the voice came to him a second time, What God has made clean, do not you make common.
Cross References
Exodus 10:11Not so; but let your males go and give worship to the Lord, as your desire is. This he said, driving them out from before him.
Leviticus 20:25So then, make division between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the clean bird and the unclean: do not make yourselves disgusting by any beast or bird or anything which goes flat on the earth, which has been marked by me as unclean for you.
Deuteronomy 14:4These are the beasts which you may have for food: the ox, the sheep, and the goat;
Ezekiel 44:31The priests may not take for food any bird or beast which has come to a natural death or whose death has been caused by another animal.
Matthew 16:22And Peter, protesting, said to him, Be it far from you, Lord; it is impossible that this will come about.
Luke 1:60But his mother made answer and said, No, his name is 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 →