Mark 7:18

And He says to them, Are you still without understanding? Do you not know that everything external entering into a man is not able to defile him?

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

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 came from the multitude into the house, His disciples asked Him the parable.

19Because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, and is cast out into the excrement, purifying all edibles.

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Cross References

Matthew 16:11How do you not understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread, to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.

Luke 24:25And He said to them, O ye foolish, and slow in heart to believe in all those things which the prophet spoke!

1 Corinthians 3:2I have fed you with milk, not with meat; for you were not yet able. But ye are not now yet 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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