since it enters not the heart but the stomach and passes out into the latrine?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.)
Do you not realize that everything that enters the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled into the latrine?
He said to them, “Are even you likewise without understanding? Do you not realize that everything that goes into a person from outside cannot defile,
But as to what is within, give alms, and behold, everything will be clean for you.
The voice spoke to him again, a second time, “What God has made clean, you are not to call profane.”
But a second time a voice from heaven answered, ‘What God has made clean, you are not to call profane.’
“Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will do away with both the one and the other. The body, however, is not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body;
Let no one, then, pass judgment on you in matters of food and drink or with regard to a festival or new moon or sabbath.