Acts Chapter 10 verse 14 Holy Bible
But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common and unclean.
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But Peter said, No, Lord; for I have never taken food which is common or unclean.
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And Peter said, In no wise, Lord; for I have never eaten anything common or unclean.
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But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.
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But Peter said, "Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean."
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And Peter said, `Not so, Lord; because at no time did I eat anything common or unclean;'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 14. - And unclean for or unclean, A.V. and T.R. It is rather a striking testimony to Peter's religious character as a Jew before his call to the apostolate, that, poor Galilaean fisherman as he was, unlearned and ignorant, he had yet always conscientiously obeyed the Law of Moses in regard to things clean and unclean (comp. Daniel 1:8-15). The address, Lord (Κύριε), seems certainly to recognize the voice as that of Christ, which also agrees with the descent of the vessel from heaven. The answer is very similar to the refusals in Matthew 16:22; John 13:8.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(14) Not so, Lord . . .--The emphatic resistance even to a voice from heaven is strikingly in harmony with the features of St. Peter's character, as portrayed in the Gospels, with the "Be it far from thee, Lord," when he heard of the coming Passion (Matthew 16:22), with "Thou shalt never wash my feet," in John 13:8. He had been taught that that which "goeth into the mouth cannot defile the man" (Mark 7:15), but he had not taken in that truth in its fulness, either in its literal or symbolic meaning.Any thing that is common or unclean.--"Common" is used, as in Mark 7:2, in the sense of "defiled" or "impure," that which excludes the idea of consecration to a special service.