Matthew 15:20
These are the things that defile a man. But to eat without washing hands does not defile a man.”
Catholic Public Domain Version
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 departing from there, Jesus withdrew into the areas of Tyre and Sidon.
Cross References
Matthew 23:25Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! For you clean what is outside the cup and the dish, but on the inside you are full of avarice and impurity.
Luke 11:38But the Pharisee began to say, thinking within himself: “Why might it be that he has not washed before eating?”
1 Corinthians 6:9Do you not know that the iniquitous will not possess the kingdom of God? Do not choose to wander astray. For neither fornicators, nor servants of idolatry, nor adulterers,
Ephesians 5:3But let not any kind of fornication, or impurity, or rapacity so much as be named among you, just as is worthy of the saints,
Revelation 21:27There shall not enter into it anything defiled, nor anything causing an abomination, nor anything false, but only those who have been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb.
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 →