¹⁸ And he said to them, “Then ^(A)are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him,

¹⁹ since it enters not his heart ^(A)but his stomach, and is expelled?”^[a] (^(B)Thus he declared all foods clean.)

²⁰ And he said, ^(A)“What comes out of a person is what defiles him.