Acts 10:14
And Peter said, 'Not so, Lord; because at no time did I eat anything common or unclean;'
Young's Literal Translation
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 there came a voice unto him: 'Having risen, Peter, slay and eat.'
Cross References
Exodus 10:11not so! go now, ye who [are] men, and serve Jehovah, for that ye are seeking;' and [one] casteth them out from the presence of Pharaoh.
Leviticus 20:25'And ye have made separation between the pure beasts and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the pure, and ye do not make yourselves abominable by beast or by fowl, or by anything which creepeth [on] the ground which I have separated to you for unclean;
Deuteronomy 14:4'this [is] the beast which ye do eat: ox, lamb of the sheep, or kid of the goats,
Ezekiel 44:31Any carcase and torn thing, of the fowl, and of the beasts, the priests do not eat.
Matthew 16:22And having taken him aside, Peter began to rebuke him, saying, 'Be kind to thyself, sir; this shall not be to thee;'
Luke 1:60and his mother answering said, 'No, but he shall 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 →