Mark 7:14-19

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹⁴ Summoning^(A) the crowd again, he told them, ‘Listen to me, all of you, and understand:^{(B) 15} Nothing that goes into a person from outside can defile him but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.’^[a]

¹⁷ When he went into the house away from the crowd, his disciples asked him about the parable. ¹⁸ He said to them, ‘Are you also as lacking in understanding? Don’t you realise 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^(C) and is eliminated’ (thus he declared all foods clean^(D)).