Mark 7:18-20

7:18 He said to them, “Are you so foolish? Don’t you understand that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him? 7:19 For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then goes out into the sewer.” ¹  (This means all foods are clean.) ²  7:20 He said, “What comes out of a person defiles him.

¹ tn Or “into the latrine.”

² sn This is a parenthetical note by the author.