They had noticed that some of his disciples ate their food without first giving their hands a ceremonial washing to purify them.

And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not observe the rules handed down by our ancestors, but eat food without purifying their hands?"

But Peter said, "Never, sir! For I have never eaten anything that was not ceremonially cleansed." The voice came to him again a second time, "Do not call what God has cleansed unclean."

I know and as a follower of the Lord Jesus I am convinced that nothing is unclean in itself; a thing is unclean only to the man who regards it as unclean.

They had noticed that some of his disciples ate their food without first giving their hands a ceremonial washing to purify them.

But Peter said, "Never, sir! For I have never eaten anything that was not ceremonially cleansed."