Acts 10:14 Cross References

Acts 10:14

14: "Never, Lord," Peter declared. "I have never in all my life eaten anything forbidden by our Jewish laws. "

"You must therefore make a distinction between ceremonially clean and unclean animals, and between clean and unclean birds. You must not defile yourselves by eating any animal or bird or creeping creature that I have forbidden.

Then I said, "O Sovereign LORD, must I be defiled by using human dung? For I have never been defiled before. From the time I was a child until now I have never eaten any animal that died of sickness or that I found dead. And I have never eaten any of the animals that our laws forbid."

Peter told them, "You know it is against the Jewish laws for me to come into a Gentile home like this. But God has shown me that I should never think of anyone as impure.

Never! Only the men may go and serve the LORD, for that is what you requested." And Pharaoh threw them out of the palace.

"Who are you, sir?" Saul asked. And the voice replied, "I am Jesus, the one you are persecuting!

"Since you are the people of the LORD your God, never cut yourselves or shave the hair above your foreheads for the sake of the dead.
You have been set apart as holy to the LORD your God, and he has chosen you to be his own special treasure from all the nations of the earth.
"You must not eat animals that are ceremonially unclean.
These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,
the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep.

Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
"Give the following instructions to the Israelites: The animals you may use for food
include those that have completely divided hooves and chew the cud.
You may not, however, eat the animals named here because they either have split hooves or chew the cud, but not both. The camel may not be eaten, for though it chews the cud, it does not have split hooves.
The same is true of the rock badger

But the others replied, 'We don't have enough for all of us. Go to a shop and buy some for yourselves.'

The priests may never eat meat from any bird or animal that dies a natural death or that dies after being attacked by another animal.

But Peter took him aside and corrected him. "Heaven forbid, Lord," he said. "This will never happen to you!"

But Daniel made up his mind not to defile himself by eating the food and wine given to them by the king. He asked the chief official for permission to eat other things instead.

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