when observing that some of his disciples were eating with profane hands, that is, without having wash'd them, they found fault.

the Pharisees, and Scribes therefore ask'd Jesus, why don't your disciples observe the tradition of the antients? why do they take their meals without washing their hands?

but Peter said, not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean. and the voice spake to him again the second time, don't call that common, which God calls clean.

I know, being fully assured by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: it is only so to him that thinks it is unclean.

when observing that some of his disciples were eating with profane hands, that is, without having wash'd them, they found fault.

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