Mark 7:18

And he saith to them, Are ye also so defective of intelligence? Do you not consider, that every thing from without that entereth into a man, cannot make him unclean?

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

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 was come into the house from the multitude, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.

19because it entereth not into his heart, but into his belly, and goeth out into the vault, carrying off all the impurities of the food.

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Cross References

Matthew 16:11How is it that ye do not understand, that I spake not to you of bread, to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?

Luke 24:25And he said unto them, O ye void of understanding, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

1 Corinthians 3:2And I have given you milk to drink, and not meat: for hitherto ye have not been capable of it, yea, even to the present moment ye are not capable of it.

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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