Acts 10:14

Good News Translation

But Peter said, “Certainly not, Lord! I have never eaten anything ritually unclean or defiled.”

Cross References

Genesis 19:18

But Lot answered, “No, please don't make us do that, sir.

Exodus 10:11

No! Only the men may go and worship the Lord if that is what you want.” With that, Moses and Aaron were driven out of the king's presence.

Ezekiel 4:14

But I replied, “No, Sovereign Lord! I have never defiled myself. From childhood on I have never eaten meat from any animal that died a natural death or was killed by wild animals. I have never eaten any food considered unclean.”

Ezekiel 44:31

The priests must not eat any bird or animal that dies a natural death or is killed by another animal.”

Daniel 1:8

Daniel made up his mind not to let himself become ritually unclean by eating the food and drinking the wine of the royal court, so he asked Ashpenaz to help him,

Leviticus 20:25

So then, you must make a clear distinction between animals and birds that are ritually clean and those that are not. Do not eat unclean animals or birds. I have declared them unclean, and eating them would make you unclean.

Matthew 15:11

It is not what goes into your mouth that makes you ritually unclean; rather, what comes out of it makes you unclean.”

Matthew 16:22

Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. “God forbid it, Lord!” he said. “That must never happen to you!”

Matthew 25:9

‘No, indeed,’ the wise ones answered, ‘there is not enough for you and for us. Go to the store and buy some for yourselves.’

Matthew 8:2

Then a man suffering from a dreaded skin disease came to him, knelt down before him, and said, “Sir, if you want to, you can make me clean.”

Mark 7:2

They noticed that some of his disciples were eating their food with hands that were ritually unclean—that is, they had not washed them in the way the Pharisees said people should. (

Luke 1:60

But his mother said, “No! His name is to be John.”

John 4:11

“Sir,” the woman said, “you don't have a bucket, and the well is deep. Where would you get that life-giving water?

Acts 10:13

A voice said to him, “Get up, Peter; kill and eat!”

Acts 10:28

He said to them, “You yourselves know very well that a Jew is not allowed by his religion to visit or associate with Gentiles. But God has shown me that I must not consider any person ritually unclean or defiled.

Acts 22:8

‘Who are you, Lord?’ I asked. ‘I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you persecute,’ he said to me.

Acts 9:5

“Who are you, Lord?” he asked. “I am Jesus, whom you persecute,” the voice said.