Matthew 15:20 meaning and explanation
These are what defile a man, but eating with unwashed hands does not defile him.”
Matthew 15:20, Berean Standard Bible
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Jesus is finishing his answer to the Pharisees, who had challenged his disciples for eating without the ritual handwashing that the tradition of the elders required. He turns the question around: defilement is not a matter of what enters the mouth, since food passes through the body, but of what comes out of the heart, and he lists the evils that truly stain a person.
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