Acts 10:14
But Peter said, “Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.”
World Messianic Bible
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
13A voice came to him, “Rise, Peter, kill and eat!”
15A voice came to him again the second time, “What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean.”
Cross References
Exodus 10:11Not so! Go now you who are men, and serve the LORD; for that is what you desire!” Then they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.
Leviticus 20:25“‘You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean. You shall not make yourselves abominable by animal, or by bird, or by anything with which the ground teems, which I have separated from you as unclean for you.
Deuteronomy 14:4These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,
Ezekiel 44:31The priests shall not eat of anything that dies of itself or is torn, whether it is bird or animal.
Matthew 16:22Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, “Far be it from you, Lord! This will never be done to you.”
Luke 1:60His mother answered, “Not so; but he will be called Yochanan.”
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 →