Acts 11:8
But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath ever entered into my mouth.
Revised Version 1895
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
7And I heard also a voice saying unto me, Rise, Peter; kill and eat.
9But a voice answered the second time out of heaven, What God hath cleansed, make not thou common.
Cross References
Leviticus 11:47to make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the living thing that may be eaten and the living thing that may not be eaten.
Hosea 9:3They shall not dwell in the LORD’S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.
Romans 14:14I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself: save that to him who accounteth anything to be unclean, to 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 →