Defilement from Within

10 And summoning the crowd, he said to them, “Hear and understand: 11 It is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth—this defiles a person.” 12 Then the disciples came and[a] said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they[b] heard this saying?”

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 15:12 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“came”) has been translated as a finite verb
  2. Matthew 15:12 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“heard”) which is understood as temporal