Mark 7:20

20 "What comes out of a man," He added, "that it is which makes him unclean.

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 "Have *you* also so little understanding?" He replied; "do you not understand that anything whatever that enters a man from outside cannot make him unclean,

19 because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, and passes away ejected from him?" By these words Jesus pronounced all kinds of food clean.

20 "What comes out of a man," He added, "that it is which makes him unclean.

21 For from within, out of men's hearts, their evil purposes proceed--fornication, theft, murder, adultery,

22 covetousness, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, reviling, pride, reckless folly: