American Standard Version
Acts 10:14
14But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common and unclean.
Acts 10:14 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.
- New International Version (NIV)“Surely not, Lord!” Peter replied. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.”
- English Standard Version (ESV)But Peter said, "By no means, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean."
- New King James Version (NKJV)But Peter said, “Not so, Lord! For I have never eaten anything common or unclean.”
Context of Acts 10:14
12wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts and creeping things of the earth and birds of the heaven. 13And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill and eat. But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common and unclean. 15And a voice came unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, make not thou common. 16And this was done thrice: and straightway the vessel was received up into heaven.
Read all of Acts 10Acts 10:14 word by word
ὁ δὲ Πέτρος εἶπεν· μηδαμῶς, κύριε· ὅτι οὐδέποτε ἔφαγον πᾶν κοινὸν καὶ ἀκάθαρτον.Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Acts 10:14
- Genesis 19:18And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my lord:
- Exodus 10:11Not so: go now ye that are men, and serve Jehovah; for that is what ye desire. And they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.
- Matthew 16:22And Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall never be unto thee.
- Matthew 25:9But the wise answered, saying, Peradventure there will not be enough for us and you: go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.
- Luke 1:60And his mother answered and said, Not so; but he shall be called John.
- Leviticus 11:1And Jehovah spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,
- Leviticus 20:25Ye shall therefore make a distinction between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by bird, or by anything wherewith the ground teemeth, which I have separated from you as unclean.
- Deuteronomy 14:1Ye are the children of Jehovah your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
- Ezekiel 4:14Then said I, Ah Lord Jehovah! behold, my soul hath not been polluted; for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn of beasts; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.
- Ezekiel 44:31The priests shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself, or is torn, whether it be bird or beast.
Commentaries on Acts 10:14
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 14Common or unclean - By common, , whatever was in general use among the Gentiles is to be understood; by , unclean, every thing that was forbidden by the Mosaic law. However, the one word may be considered as explanatory of the other. The rabbins themselves, and many of the primitive fathers, believed that by the unclean animals forbidden by the law the Gentiles were meant.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 14I have never eaten - In the Old Testament God had made a distinction between clean and unclean animals. See Leviticus 11:2-27; Deuteronomy 14:3-20. This law remained in the Scriptures, and Peter pled that he had never violated it, implying that he could not now violate it, as it was a law of God, and that, as it was unrepealed, he did not dare to act in a different manner from what it required. Between that law and the command which he now received in…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 9-18Verses 9-18 The prejudices of Peter against the Gentiles, would have prevented his going to Cornelius, unless the Lord had prepared him for this service. To tell a Jew that God had directed those animals to be reckoned clean which were hitherto deemed unclean, was in effect saying, that the law of Moses was done away. Peter was soon made to know the meaning of it. God knows what services are before us, and how to prepare us; and we know the meaning of…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 14See Leviticus 11 for a list of animals that Jewish laws have declared impure and ceremonially unclean.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 9-169-16. upon the housetop--the flat roof, the chosen place in the East for cool retirement. the sixth hour--noon.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Acts 10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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