Matthew 15:20
These are the things that defile the man. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
In Context
21And Jesus went out thence, and withdrew into the regions of Tyre and Sidon.
Cross References
Matthew 23:25Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you make clean the outside of the cup and the plate; but within they are full of rapine and excess.
Luke 11:38And when the Pharisee saw it, he wondered that he had not first immersed himself before dinner.
1 Corinthians 6:9Know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither lewd persons, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor sodomites,
Ephesians 5:3But lewdness, and all manner of uncleanness, or covetousness, let them not be named among you, as it becomes saints;
Revelation 21:27And there shall not enter it any thing unclean, or that does what is detestable, or that makes a lie: but those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 15:11-21
What Defileth a Man. 10 And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand: 11 Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man. 12 Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying? 13 But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up. 14 Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead… Read the whole commentary →