Mark 7:18

and He says to them, “So also you are without understanding! Do you not perceive that nothing from outside entering into the man is able to defile him?

Literal Standard Version

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 entered into a house from the multitude, His disciples were questioning Him about the allegory,

19Because it does not enter into his heart, but into the belly, and into the drain it goes out, purifying all the meats.”

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Cross References

Jeremiah 5:4And I said, “Surely these [are] poor, || They have been foolish, || For they have not known the way of YHWH, || The judgment of their God.

Matthew 16:11How do you not understand that I did not speak to you of bread—to take heed of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?”

Luke 24:25And He said to them, “O inconsiderate and slow in heart to believe on all that the prophets spoke!

1 Corinthians 3:2with milk I fed you, and not with meat, for you were not yet able, but not even yet are you now 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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