Mark 7:20

7:20 He said, “What comes out of a person defiles him.

Mark 7:23

7:23 All these evils come from within and defile a person.”

2:27 Then¹ he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for people,² not people for the Sabbath.

8:36 For what benefit is it for a person³ to gain the whole world, yet⁴ forfeit his life?

14:71 Then he began to curse, and he swore with an oath, “I do not know this man you are talking about!”

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?

7:15 There is nothing outside of a person that can defile him by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles him.”

¹tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

²tn The Greek term ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpos) is used twice in this verse in a generic sense, referring to both men and women, thus “people.”

¹tn Grk “a man,” but ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpo") is used in a generic sense here to refer to both men and women.

²tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “yet” to indicate the contrast present in this context.