Mark 7:18

18 He said to them, " Don't you understand either? Don't you know that nothing from the outside that enters a person has the power to contaminate?

Mark 7:18 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 7:18

And he saith unto them
With some warmth of spirit and resentment, at their stupidity:

are ye so without understanding also?
As well as others, and to such a degree; and "yet", as Matthew expresses it, ( Matthew 15:16 ) , so wretchedly stupid, and so long, and as much, as others:

do ye not perceive?
common sense will tell you,

that whatsoever thing from, without entereth into the man, it cannot
defile him; (See Gill on Matthew 15:16).

Mark 7:18 In-Context

17 After leaving the crowd, he entered a house where his disciples asked him about that riddle.

18 He said to them, "Don't you understand either? Don't you know that nothing from the outside that enters a person has the power to contaminate?

19 That's because it doesn't enter into the heart but into the stomach, and it goes out into the sewer." By saying this, Jesus declared that no food could contaminate a person in God's sight.

20 "It's what comes out of a person that contaminates someone in God's sight," he said.