18 And he said to them, “So are you also without understanding? Do you not understand that everything that is outside that goes into a person is not able to defile him? 19 For it does not enter into his heart but into his[a] stomach, and goes out into the latrine”—thus[b] declaring all foods clean. 20 And he said, “What comes out of a person, that defiles a person.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 7:19 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
  2. Mark 7:19 Here “thus” is supplied as a component of the participle (“declaring”) which is understood as result