Mark 7:12-19

12 then you no longer let them do anything for their father or mother.

13 Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that.”

14 Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen to me, everyone, and understand this.

15 Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them.^[a] ”

17 After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about this parable.

18 “Are you so dull?” he asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them?

19 For it doesn’t go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.)

Cross References

• 1. S Hebrews 4:12
• 2. S ver 3
• 3. Mark 9:28
• 4. Romans 14:1-12; Colossians 2:16; 1 Timothy 4:3-5
• 5. S Acts 10:15

Footnotes

• [a]. Some manuscripts include here the words of 4:23.