Mark 7:19

Because it does not enter into his heart, but into his belly, and goes out into the sink, cleansing all food.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?

In Context

18And he said to them: Are you also so void of understanding? Do you not perceive that nothing from without, by entering into a man, can defile him?

20And he said: What comes out of the man, is that which defiles the man.

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Cross References

Matthew 15:17Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth passes into the belly, and is cast out into the sink?

Acts 10:15And the voice came to him again a second time: What God has cleansed, you must not call common.

Romans 14:1Him that is weak in the faith, receive kindly, but not to judge his reasonings.

Colossians 2:16Let no one judge you, therefore, in meat or in drink, or in respect to a feast, or the new moon, or sabbaths,

Matthew Henry on Mark 7:2-24

The Traditions of the Elders; The Worst Defilement from Within. 1 Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem. 2 And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault. 3 For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders. 4 And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they… Read the whole commentary →

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