Mark 7:18

So He said to them, “Are you also without understanding? Do you not understand that everything entering a man from outside cannot defile him,

English Majority Text (NT)

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

17When He had entered a house away from the crowd, His disciples were asking Him about the parable.

19because it does not enter into his heart but into his stomach, and passes into the latrine, thus purifying all foods?”

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Cross References

Matthew 16:11How is it you do not perceive that I did not speak to you about bread, but to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?”

Luke 24:25Then He said to them, “O you foolish, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

1 Corinthians 3:2I gave you milk to drink, and not solid food; for you were not yet able to receive it. Indeed, neither are you now yet able;

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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