Mark 7:20

20 He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them.

Mark 7:20 in Other Translations

20 And he said,That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.

20 And he said, "What comes out of a person is what defiles him.

20 And then he added, “It is what comes from inside that defiles you.

20 He went on: "It's what comes out of a person that pollutes:

20 Then He said, "What comes out of a person-that defiles him.

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 “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.)

20 He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them.

21 For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder,

22 adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly.