Mark 7:20

20 For he had said that it is what comes out of the man that defiles the man.

Mark 7:20 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 7:20

And he said
Continued to say in his discourse; though this is left but in the Syriac version;

that which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man;
meaning, not his excrements, which were unclean by the law, ( Deuteronomy 23:13 ) but what comes out of his heart, by his mouth; or is expressed in action, as appears by what follows; (See Gill on Matthew 15:18).

Mark 7:20 In-Context

18 And he said unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not understand that anything from outside that enters into the man cannot defile him?

19 Because it enters not into his heart, but into the belly, and the man goes out to the privy and purges all foods.

20 For he had said that it is what comes out of the man that defiles the man.

21 For from within, out of the heart of men, come forth the evil thoughts, the adulteries, the fornications, the murders,

22 the thefts, the covetousness, the wickedness, the deceit, the lasciviousness, the evil eye, the slander, the pride, the unwiseness: