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Mark 7:18-20
Disciples’ Literal New Testament
Mark 7:18-20
Disciples’ Literal New Testament
18 And He says to them, “So are even you without-understanding? Do you not perceive that everything outside proceeding into the person is not able to defile[a] him 19 because it does not proceed into his heart, but into his stomach, and it proceeds out into the latrine?” (He was making all foods clean[b].) 20 And He was saying that “The thing proceeding out of the person— that defiles the person.
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- Mark 7:18 Or, make him unclean or impure. It is disobedience to God’s Law that defiles a person. Their traditions are not God’s laws.
- Mark 7:19 making... clean. Or, declaring... clean, treating... clean. These words may be Mark’s comment, as in 3:30; 7:3-4. If these are still the words of Jesus, punctuate this ‘latrine, cleansing all foods’ (the latrine proves they are clean because they pass through the body without affecting the heart); or, ‘latrine, purging all foods’ (simply completing the physical description).
Mark 7:18-20
New International Version
Mark 7:18-20
New International Version
18 “Are you so dull?” he asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them? 19 For it doesn’t go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods(A) clean.)(B)
20 He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them.
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