Mark 7:20

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

Mark 7:20 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 7:20

And he said
Continued to say in his discourse; though this is left but in the Syriac version;

that which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man;
meaning, not his excrements, which were unclean by the law, ( Deuteronomy 23:13 ) but what comes out of his heart, by his mouth; or is expressed in action, as appears by what follows; (See Gill on Matthew 15:18).

Mark 7:20 In-Context

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.

21 "It's from the inside, from the human heart, that evil thoughts come: sexual sins, thefts, murders,

22 adultery, greed, evil actions, deceit, unrestrained immorality, envy, insults, arrogance, and foolishness.