Mark 7:15
There is nothing from outside a man entering into him which can defile him; but the things which go out from him, those it is which defile the man.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
14And having called again the crowd, he said to them, Hear me, all [of you], and understand:
16If any one have ears to hear, let him hear.
Cross References
Leviticus 11:42Whatever goeth on the belly, and whatever goeth on all four, and all that have a great many feet, of every manner of crawling thing which crawleth on the earth these ye shall not eat; for they are an abomination.
Matthew 12:34Offspring of vipers! how can ye speak good things, being wicked? For of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
Mark 7:18And he says to them, Are *ye* also thus unintelligent? Do ye not perceive that all that is outside entering into the man cannot defile him,
Acts 10:28And he said to them, *Ye* know how it is unlawful for a Jew to be joined or come to one of a strange race, and to *me* God has shewn to call no man common or unclean.
Acts 15:20but to write to them to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.
1 Corinthians 10:25Everything sold in the shambles eat, making no inquiry for conscience sake.
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 →