12. then you are no longer required to care for your father or mother.’
13. In this way you do away with God’s word in favor of the rules handed down to you, which you pass on to others. And you do a lot of other things just like that."
14. Then Jesus called the crowd again and said, "Listen to me, all of you, and understand.
15. Nothing outside of a person can enter and contaminate a person in God’s sight; rather, the things that come out of a person contaminate the person."
17. After leaving the crowd, he entered a house where his disciples asked him about that riddle.
18. He said to them, "Don’t you understand either? Don’t you know that nothing from the outside that enters a person has the power to contaminate?
19. That’s because it doesn’t enter into the heart but into the stomach, and it goes out into the sewer." By saying this, Jesus declared that no food could contaminate a person in God’s sight.
20. "It’s what comes out of a person that contaminates someone in God’s sight," he said.
21. "It’s from the inside, from the human heart, that evil thoughts come: sexual sins, thefts, murders,