Acts 10:14 KJV

But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.

Matthew Henry

  • Peter's visionThe 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...

Thompson Chains

Parallel Passages

  • Leviticus 11:29 These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind,
  • Ezekiel 4:14 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! 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 in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.

From Thompson’s Chain-Reference Bible (1908).

Cross References

  • Ezekiel 4:14 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! 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 in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.
  • Leviticus 20:25 Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.
  • Genesis 19:18 And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord:
  • Exodus 10:11 Not so: go now ye that are men, and serve the LORD; for that ye did desire. And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.
  • Leviticus 11:1–25 And the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them, …

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Topics

  • Animals Clean and unclean
  • Catholicity Inculcated
  • Converts Cornelius
  • Cornelius A Roman centurion
  • Dream Peter’s vision of the ceremonially unclean creatures

Timeline

Bible Dictionary

  • PeterOriginally called Simon (=Simeon, i.e., “hearing”), a very common Jewish name in the New Testament. He was the son of Jona (Matt 16:17)....
  • LordThere are various Hebrew and Greek words so rendered.

Greek and Strong’s

  • But δὲ de δέ Conjunction
  • Peter Ὁ Ho Article · nominative masculine singular Πέτρος Petros Πέτρος Noun · nominative masculine singular
  • said εἶπεν eipen Verb · aorist active indicative, third person singular ἔπω épō
  • Not so Μηδαμῶς Mēdamōs μηδαμῶς Adverb
  • Lord Κύριε Kyrie κύριος Noun · vocative masculine singular
  • for ὅτι hoti ὅτι Conjunction
  • I have φάγω phágō
  • never οὐδέποτε oudepote οὐδέποτε Adverb
  • eaten ἔφαγον ephagon Verb · aorist active indicative, first person singular φάγω phágō
  • any thing πᾶν pan πᾶς Article · accusative neuter singular
  • that is common κοινὸν koinon κοινός Adjective · accusative neuter singular
  • or ἢ ē ἤ Conjunction
  • unclean ἀκάθαρτον akatharton ἀκάθαρτος Adjective · accusative neuter singular

Greek: KJTR, Alan Bunning, CNTR · CC BY 4.0

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