Acts 10:14
14 "Surely not, Lord!" Peter replied. "I have never eaten anything impure or unclean."
Other Translations of Acts 10:14
King James Version
14 But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.
English Standard Version
14 But Peter said, "By no means, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean."
The Message
14 Peter said, "Oh, no, Lord. I've never so much as tasted food that was not kosher."
New King James Version
14 But Peter said, "Not so, Lord! For I have never eaten anything common or unclean."
New Living Translation
14 "No, Lord," Peter declared. "I have never eaten anything that our Jewish laws have declared impure and unclean. "
Acts 10:15
15 The voice spoke to him a second time, "Do not call anything impure that God has made clean."
Other Translations of Acts 10:15
King James Version
15 And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
English Standard Version
15 And the voice came to him again a second time, "What God has made clean, do not call common."
The Message
15 The voice came a second time: "If God says it's okay, it's okay."
New King James Version
15 And a voice spoke to him again the second time, "What God has cleansed you must not call common."
New Living Translation
15 But the voice spoke again: "Do not call something unclean if God has made it clean."
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Acts 10:15
Commentary on Acts 10:9-18
(Read Acts 10:9-18)
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 what he has taught us, when we find what occasion we have to make use of it.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Acts 10:14
Commentary on Acts 10:9-18
(Read Acts 10:9-18)
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 what he has taught us, when we find what occasion we have to make use of it.