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16 [a]

What Goes Into The Body Does Not Defile, But What Comes Out of The Heart

17 And when He entered into a house away-from the crowd, His disciples were questioning Him as to the parable. 18 And He says to them, “So are even you without-understanding? Do you not perceive that everything outside proceeding into the person is not able to defile[b] him

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 7:16 Some manuscripts add here ‘If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear’.
  2. Mark 7:18 Or, make him unclean or impure. It is disobedience to God’s Law that defiles a person. Their traditions are not God’s laws.

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