¹⁸ He said to them, “Are you also as lacking in understanding? Don’t you realize that nothing going into a person from the outside can defile him? ¹⁹ For it doesn’t go into his heart but into the stomach^(A) and is eliminated” (thus he declared all foods clean^(B)). ²⁰ And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him.