Matthew 15:11-14

J.B. Phillips New Testament

Superficial and true cleanliness

^10-11 Then he called the crowd to him and said, “Listen, and understand this thoroughly! It is not what goes into a man’s mouth that makes him common or unclean. It is what comes out of a man’s mouth that makes him unclean.”

¹² Later his disciples came to him and said, “Do you know that the Pharisees are deeply offended by what you said?”

^13-14 “Every plant which my Heavenly Father did not plant will be pulled up by the roots,” returned Jesus. “Let them alone. They are blind guides, and when one blind man leads another blind man they will both end up in the ditch!”