“Teaching people to understand the dietary prescriptions of the Law not in a carnal manner, the Lord begins here to gradually reveal the meaning of the Law and says that nothing entering from outside defiles anyone, but what comes from the heart defiles.”
Theophylact of Ohrid, 12th c. — Commentary on Mark
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14And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand:
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12And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;
13Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
— Mark 7:14 —
15There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.