Acts 11:8

8 But I said, 'Certainly not, Lord! For nothing common or unclean has ever entered into my mouth!'

Acts 11:8 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 11:8

But I said, not so, Lord
For he took the voice he heard to be the voice of the Lord, and yet he was not obedient to the heavenly vision, and even though he was an hungry; which shows what a strict observer he was of the ceremonies of the law, and how much he was prejudiced in favour of them:

for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my
mouth;
he had not suffered anything to come within his lips; he had not even tasted, and much less ate anything that was forbidden by the ceremonial law, so strictly had he observed it.

Acts 11:8 In-Context

6 [As I] looked intently into it, I was considering [it], and I saw the four-footed animals of the earth and the wild animals and the reptiles and the birds of the sky.

7 And I also heard a voice saying to me, 'Get up, Peter, slaughter and eat!'

8 But I said, 'Certainly not, Lord! For nothing common or unclean has ever entered into my mouth!'

9 But the voice replied from heaven for the second time, '[The things] which God has made clean, you must not consider unclean!'

10 And this happened three times, and everything was pulled up into heaven again.