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On True Purity

Jesus then called the crowd to him again and said: “Listen to me, everyone, and understand.

Nothing that enters a person from outside can defile them. It is what comes from within that makes a person unclean. 

Let everyone with ears listen.”

 When Jesus got home and was away from the crowd, his disciples asked him about this saying 

he replied:

“So even you are dull? Do you not see that whatever comes from outside cannot make a person unclean,

since it enters not the heart but the stomach and is finally passed out?”

Therefore, Jesus declared that all foods are clean.

And he continued:

“What comes out of a person is what defiles him,

for evil intentions originate in the heart: theft, murder, 

adultery, jealousy, greed, maliciousness, deceit, indecency, slander, pride, and folly. 

All these evil things come from within and make a person unclean.”