Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁹ And He was saying to them, “You are nicely^[a] setting-aside^[b] the commandment of God in order that you may establish^[c] your tradition! ¹⁰ For Moses said [in Ex 20:12], ‘Be honoring your father and your mother’, and [in Ex 21:17], ‘Let the one speaking-evil-of father or mother come-to-an-end^[d] by a death’. ¹¹ But you say if a person says to his father or mother, ‘Whatever you might be benefitted from me is Corban (which means “Gift”)’, ¹² you no longer permit him to do anything^[e] for his father or mother— ¹³ nullifying^[f] the word of God by your tradition which you handed-down. And you are doing many similar such things”. ¹⁴ And having summoned the crowd again, He was saying to them, “Everyone listen-to Me and understand— ¹⁵ there is nothing outside of the person proceeding into him which is able to defile him. But the things proceeding out of the person are the things defiling the person. ^16 [g]

What Goes Into The Body Does Not Defile, But What Comes Out of The Heart

¹⁷ And when He entered into a house away-from the crowd, His disciples were questioning Him as to the parable. ¹⁸ And He says to them, “So are even you without-understanding? Do you not perceive that everything outside proceeding into the person is not able to defile^[h] him 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^[i].) 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, ²² adulteries, greeds, evils, deceit, sensuality, an evil eye^[j], blasphemy, arrogance, foolishness. ²³ All these evil things proceed-out from within, and defile the person”.