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19 because it does not proceed into his heart, but into his stomach, and it proceeds out into the latrine?” (He was making all foods clean[a].) 20 And He was saying that “The thing proceeding out of the person— that defiles the person. 21 For from within, out of the heart of people, proceed the evil thoughts, sexual-immoralities, thefts, murders,

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  1. Mark 7:19 making... clean. Or, declaring... clean, treating... clean. These words may be Mark’s comment, as in 3:30; 7:3-4. If these are still the words of Jesus, punctuate this ‘latrine, cleansing all foods’ (the latrine proves they are clean because they pass through the body without affecting the heart); or, ‘latrine, purging all foods’ (simply completing the physical description).

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