14 "Surely not, Lord!" Peter replied. "I have never eaten anything impure or unclean."
14 But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.
14 But Peter said, "By no means, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean."
14 Peter said, "Oh, no, Lord. I've never so much as tasted food that was not kosher."
14 But Peter said, "Not so, Lord! For I have never eaten anything common or unclean."
14 "No, Lord," Peter declared. "I have never eaten anything that our Jewish laws have declared impure and unclean. "
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.