Mark 7:15-19

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

¹⁵ There is not [even] one thing outside a man which by going into him can pollute and defile him; but the things which come out of a man are what defile him and make him unhallowed and unclean.

^16 [a]If any man has ears to hear, let him be listening [and let him ^[b]perceive and comprehend by hearing].

¹⁷ And when He had left the crowd and had gone into the house, His disciples began asking Him about the parable.

¹⁸ And He said to them, Then are you also unintelligent and dull and without understanding? Do you not discern and see that whatever goes into a man from the outside cannot make him unhallowed or unclean,

¹⁹ Since it does not reach and enter his heart but [only his] digestive tract, and so passes on [into the place designed to receive waste]? Thus He was making and declaring all foods [ceremonially] clean [that is, ^[c]abolishing the ceremonial distinctions of the Levitical Law].