Mark 7:17-23

7:17 Now ¹  when Jesus ²  had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about the parable. 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.” ³  (This means all foods are clean.) ⁴  7:20 He said, “What comes out of a person defiles him. 7:21 For from within, out of the human heart, come evil ideas, sexual immorality, theft, murder, 7:22 adultery, greed, evil, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, pride, and folly. 7:23 All these evils come from within and defile a person.”

[7:17]  ¹ tn Grk “And.” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “now” to indicate the transition to a new topic.

[7:17]  ² tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[7:19]  ³ tn Or “into the latrine.”

[7:19]  ⁴ sn This is a parenthetical note by the author.