Mark 7:16-18
Contemporary English Version
15-16 The food that you put into your mouth doesn't make you unclean and unfit to worship God. The bad words that come out of your mouth are what make you unclean.”[a]
17 After Jesus and his disciples had left the crowd and gone into the house, they asked him what these sayings meant. 18 He answered, “Don't you know what I am talking about by now? You surely know that the food you put into your mouth cannot make you unclean.
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- 7.15,16 unclean: Some manuscripts add, “If you have ears, pay attention.”
Mark 7:16-18
New International Version
[16] [a]
17 After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him(A) about this parable. 18 “Are you so dull?” he asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them?
Footnotes
- Mark 7:16 Some manuscripts include here the words of 4:23.
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