Mark 7:15
There is nothing outside of a ben Adam (human being) entering into him which is able to make him tameh, but it is the things coming out from the ben Adam that make him tameh.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
16He who has oznayim to hear, let him hear.
Cross References
Leviticus 11:42Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever goeth upon all fours, or whatsoever hath marbeh raglayim (many feet) among all creeping things that creep upon ha'aretz, them ye shall not eat; for they are sheketz.
Matthew 12:34You banim of nechashim (sons of snakes), how are you able to speak tovot (good things), for out of the abundance of the lev (heart) the mouth speaks.
Mark 7:18And he says to them, Are you so lacking in binah also? Do you not have binah that it is not what is outside and entering into the ben Adam that is able to make him tameh (unclean)?
Acts 10:28And he said to them, You have da'as that it is asur (prohibited) for an ish Yehudi to associate with or to approach a nokhri (foreigner). And yet to me Hashem showed to call no one shikkutz (abomination) or tameh (unclean).
Acts 15:20But to write to them to keep away from the pollution of elilim and of zenut and of the thing strangled and of dahm. + 15:20 Lv 3:17; 7:26; 17:10-13; 19:26; Dt 12:16,23
1 Corinthians 10:25Everything being sold in a meat market eat without raising qualms of matzpun (conscience).
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 →