14
Then Yeshua called the people to him again and said, "Listen to me, all of you, and understand this!
15
There is nothing outside a person which, by going into him, can make him unclean. Rather, it is the things that come out of a person which make a person unclean!"
16
Some manuscripts include verse 16: "Anyone who has ears that can hear, let him hear!"
17
When he had left the people and entered the house, his talmidim asked him about the parable.
18
He replied to them, "So you too are without understanding? Don't you see that nothing going into a person from outside can make him unclean?
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.