Acts 11:8

8 "`On no account, Lord,' I replied, `for nothing unholy or impure has ever gone 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 Fixing my eyes on it, I examined it closely, and saw various kinds of quadrupeds, wild beasts, reptiles and birds.

7 I also heard a voice saying to me, "`Rise, Peter, kill and eat.'

8 "`On no account, Lord,' I replied, `for nothing unholy or impure has ever gone into my mouth.'

9 "But a voice answered, speaking a second time from the sky, "`What God has purified, you must not regard as unholy.'

10 "This was said three times, and then everything was drawn up again out of sight.