Mark 7:18

And he saith to them: So are you also without knowledge? Understand you not that every thing from without entering into a man cannot defile him:

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)

In The King James Version

And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;

In Context

17And when he was come into the house from the multitude, his disciples asked him the parable.

19Because it entereth not into his heart but goeth into his belly and goeth out into the privy, purging all meats?

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Cross References

Jeremiah 5:4But I said: Perhaps these are poor and foolish, that know not the way of the Lord, the judgment of their God.

Matthew 16:11Why do you not understand that it was not concerning bread I said to you: Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?

Luke 24:25Then he said to them: O foolish and slow of heart to believe in all things, Which the prophets have spoken.

1 Corinthians 3:2I gave you milk to drink, not meat: for you were not able as yet. But neither indeed are you now able: for you are yet carnal.

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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