Mark 7:18

And 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)?

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 left the multitude and entered a bais, his talmidim were asking him [about] the mashal.

19Because it does not enter into his lev, but into his stomach and goes out into the latrine, making all the okhel tohar. + 7:19 T.N. See Ro 14:14-23

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Cross References

Jeremiah 5:4Therefore I said: Surely these are poor; 1 they are foolish; 1 for they know not the Derech Hashem, 1 nor the Mishpat Eloheihem. 1

Matthew 16:11How is it that you do not chap (grasp mentally) that I did not speak to you concerning lechem? But beware of the chametz (swelling, all-permeating leaven) + 16:11 like evil, like gaavah, pride of the Perushim and Tzedukim.

Luke 24:25And Moshiach said to them, O foolish ones and slow in lev (heart) to have emunah in all which the Neviim spoke.

1 Corinthians 3:2Cholov I gave you to drink, not solid okhel (food), for you were not yet able to receive it, but neither yet are you able now.

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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