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Acts 10:14

But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.

KJV

ὁ δὲ Πέτρος εἶπεν, μηδαμῶς, κύριε, ὅτι οὐδέποτε ἔφαγον πᾶν κοινὸν καὶ ἀκάθαρτον.

Greek NT

Ait autem Petrus : Absit Domine, quia numquam manducavi omne commune et immundum.

Vulgate

But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common and unclean.

ASV

But Peter said: Far be it from me. For I never did eat any thing that is common and unclean.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Πέτρος
petros
noun · 154×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κοινός
koinos
adjective · 14×
κύριος
kurios
noun · 717×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
μηδαμῶς
medamos
adverb · 2×
οὐδέποτε
oudepote
adverb · 16×
πᾶς
pas
adjective · 1226×
φάγω
phago
verb · 93×
ἀκάθαρτος
akathartos
adjective · 31×
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

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SBLGNT: καὶ | WH/Treg/NIV: καὶ | RP: ἢ
  • καὶSBLGNT
  • καὶWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Theophany

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

2. What then says Christ? He did not set Himself against it, neither made He any defense, but straightway blames them again, plucking down their confidence, and signifying that he who commits great sins ought not to be strict with others concerning small matters. What? When you ought to be blamed, says He, do ye even blame? But do thou observe, how when it is His will to set as…

Cross-references

  • Dan 1:8 — But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he mig
  • Dan 1:8 — But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he mig
  • Deut 14:1 — Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
  • Ezek 4:14 — Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable
  • Ezek 4:14 — Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable
  • Heb 13:9 — Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
  • Isa 52:11 — Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD.
  • Judg 13:4 — Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:
  • Lev 11:1 — And the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,
  • Lev 20:25 — Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living th
  • Mark 7:15 — There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.
  • Matt 15:11 — Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
  • Rom 14:14 — I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.