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17 When he had left the crowd and gone home, his disciples began asking him about the parable. 18 He asked them, “Are you so ignorant? Don’t you know that nothing that goes into a person from the outside can make him unclean? 19 Because it doesn’t go into his heart but into his stomach, and then into the sewer,[a] thereby expelling[b] all foods.”

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  1. Mark 7:19 Or drain
  2. Mark 7:19 Or cleansing from; the Gk. lacks thereby