16. Let the person who has ears listen!”
17. When he had left the people and gone home, his disciples asked him about this illustration.
18. Jesus said to them, “Don’t you understand? Don’t you know that whatever goes into a person from the outside can’t make him unclean?
19. It doesn’t go into his thoughts but into his stomach and then into a toilet.” (By saying this, Jesus declared all foods acceptable.)
20. He continued, “It’s what comes out of a person that makes him unclean.