Mark 7:18

Jesus said, “Are you also still without understanding? Do you not see that whatever enters into a person from outside cannot defile him,

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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

17Now when Jesus left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about the parable.

19because it cannot go into his heart, but it goes into his stomach and then passes out into the latrine?” With this statement Jesus declared all foods clean.

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Cross References

Jeremiah 5:4So I said, “Surely these are only poor people. 1 They are foolish, for they do not know Yahweh's ways, nor their God's decrees. 1

Matthew 16:11How is it that you do not understand that I was not speaking to you about bread? Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

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

1 Corinthians 3:2I fed you milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it; and even now you are not yet 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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