Mark 7:17

17 When Jesus left the people and went into the house, his followers asked him about this story.

Mark 7:17 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 7:17

And when he was entered into the house
Very probably at Capernaum, and it may be the house of Simon and Andrew, where he used to be when there:

from the people;
being separated from them, having dismissed and left them, when he and his disciples were by themselves alone:

his disciples asked him concerning the parable;
that saying of his to the people, which was somewhat dark and intricate to them; that nothing without a man going into him defiled him, but what comes out of him: this was asked by Peter, in the name of the rest; (See Gill on Matthew 15:15).

Mark 7:17 In-Context

15 There is nothing people put into their bodies that makes them unclean. People are made unclean by the things that come out of them."

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17 When Jesus left the people and went into the house, his followers asked him about this story.

18 Jesus said, "Do you still not understand? Surely you know that nothing that enters someone from the outside can make that person unclean.

19 It does not go into the mind, but into the stomach. Then it goes out of the body." (When Jesus said this, he meant that no longer was any food unclean for people to eat.)