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Then Yeshua called the people to him again and said, "Listen to me, all of you, and understand this!
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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!"
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Some manuscripts include verse 16: "Anyone who has ears that can hear, let him hear!"
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When he had left the people and entered the house, his talmidim asked him about the parable.
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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?
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For it doesn't go into his heart but into his stomach, and it passes out into the latrine." (Thus he declared all foods ritually clean.)
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"It is what comes out of a person," he went on, "that makes him unclean.
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For from within, out of a person's heart, come forth wicked thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,
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greed, malice, deceit, indecency, envy, slander, arrogance, foolishness...
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All these wicked things come from within, and they make a person unclean."
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Next, Yeshua left that district and went off to the vicinity of Tzor and Tzidon. There he found a house to stay in and wanted to remain unrecognized, but keeping hidden proved impossible.