When he had entered into a house away from the multitude, his disciples asked him about the parable.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Mark 7:17 in context
Mark 7:14–20
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He called all the multitude to himself and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand.
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There is nothing from outside of the man that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.
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If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!”
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When he had entered into a house away from the multitude, his disciples asked him about the parable.
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He said to them, “Are you also without understanding? Don’t you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can’t defile him,
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because it doesn’t go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, making all foods clean?”
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He said, “That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man.
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