13. In this way the teaching you pass on to others cancels out the word of God. And there are many other things like this that you do.”
14. Then Jesus called the crowd to him once more and said to them, “Listen to me, all of you, and understand.
15. There is nothing that goes into a person from the outside which can make him ritually unclean. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that makes him unclean.”
17. When he left the crowd and went into the house, his disciples asked him to explain this saying.
18. “You are no more intelligent than the others,” Jesus said to them. “Don't you understand? Nothing that goes into a person from the outside can really make him unclean,
19. because it does not go into his heart but into his stomach and then goes on out of the body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared that all foods are fit to be eaten.)
20. And he went on to say, “It is what comes out of a person that makes him unclean.