Mark 7:19

19 Because it entereth not into his heart but goeth into his belly and goeth out into the privy, purging all meats?

Mark 7:19 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 7:19

Because it entereth not into his heart
Which is the seat and fountain of all moral pollution; and if that is not defiled, no other part can be; and that that is not defiled by eating and drinking, unless in case of intemperance, is clear; because food and drink do not go into it:

but into the belly;
it is taken in at the mouth, goes down the throat, and is received into the stomach, and from thence it passes through the bowels:

and goeth into the draught;
(aokh tyb) , "the private house", as the Jews call it, without going into the heart at all:

purging all meats;
that which it leaves behind, is pure and nourishing; and whatever is gross and impure, is carried with it into the draught, so that nothing remains in the man that is defiling.

Mark 7:19 In-Context

17 And when he was come into the house from the multitude, his disciples asked him the parable.

18 And he saith to them: So are you also without knowledge? Understand you not that every thing from without entering into a man cannot defile him:

19 Because it entereth not into his heart but goeth into his belly and goeth out into the privy, purging all meats?

20 But he said that the things which come out from a man, they defile a man.

21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,