Mark 7:18

So He said to them: “Can you really be without understanding? Don't you perceive that nothing that enters a man from outside can defile him,

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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 started to question Him about the parable.

19because it doesn't go into his heart, but into his stomach, which then expels the impure aspects of the food?”

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Cross References

Matthew 16:11How come you don't perceive that it wasn't about bread that I told you to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?”

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

1 Corinthians 3:2I gave you milk and not solid food, because you were not ready yet. Alas, you are still not ready,

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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