13 thus[a] making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down, and you do many similar things such as this.”

Defilement from Within

14 And summoning the crowd again, he said to them, “Listen to me, all of you, and understand: 15 There is nothing outside of a person that is able to defile him by[b] going into him. But the things that go out of a person are the things that defile a person.”[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 7:13 Here “thus” is supplied as a component of the participle (“making void”) which is understood as result
  2. Mark 7:15 Here “by” is supplied as a component of the participle (“going”) which is understood as means
  3. Mark 7:15 Most later manuscripts add v. 16, “If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.”