“Don’t you grasp that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and then is ejected into the sewer?
Mark 7:19 - Tree of Life Version For it does not enter into the heart but into the stomach, and then goes out into the sewer, cleansing all foods.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Since it does not reach and enter his heart but [only his] digestive tract, and so passes on [into the place designed to receive waste]? Thus He was making and declaring all foods [ceremonially] clean [that is, abolishing the ceremonial distinctions of the Levitical Law]. American Standard Version (1901) because it goeth not into his heart, but into his belly, and goeth out into the draught? This he said, making all meats clean. Common English Bible That’s because it doesn’t enter into the heart but into the stomach, and it goes out into the sewer.” By saying this, Jesus declared that no food could contaminate a person in God’s sight. Catholic Public Domain Version For it does not enter into his heart, but into the gut, and it exits into the sewer, purging all foods." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Because it entereth not into his heart, but goeth into the belly, and goeth out into the privy, purging all meats? |
“Don’t you grasp that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and then is ejected into the sewer?
And He said to them, “Are you then also lacking understanding? Don’t you grasp that whatever goes into the man cannot make him unholy?
But give as tzadakah those things that are within, and indeed everything is pure to you.
Again a voice came to him, a second time: “What God has made clean, you must not consider unholy.”
But a voice from heaven answered a second time, ‘What God has made clean, you must not consider unholy.’
“Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food”—but God will do away with both of them. Yet the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.
Therefore, do not let anyone pass judgment on you in matters of food or drink, or in respect to a festival or new moon or Shabbat.