These are the things that defile a person; it is not eating with unwashed hands that defiles a person.”

What defiles a person is not what goes into the mouth; it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles a person.”

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

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

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.”

But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these things defile a person.

The voice spoke to him again, a second time, “What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!”

But the voice replied a second time from heaven, ‘What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!’

He said to them, “Are you so foolish? Don’t you understand that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him?

For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a young cow sprinkled on those who are defiled consecrated them and provided ritual purity,

shouting, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people, our law, and this sanctuary! Furthermore he has brought Greeks into the inner courts of the temple and made this holy place ritually unclean!”