Mark 7:19 meaning and explanation
because it does not enter his heart, but it goes into the stomach and then is eliminated.” (Thus all foods are clean.)
Mark 7:19, Berean Standard Bible
Explanation preview
Jesus is speaking privately to his disciples in a house after the crowd has gone. He has just told the crowd that nothing entering a person from outside defiles him, and here he explains why: food goes into the stomach, not the heart, the seat of moral intention in Jewish thought, and then passes out.
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