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.
21. For from the inside, from a person's heart, come the evil ideas which lead him to do immoral things, to rob, kill,
22. commit adultery, be greedy, and do all sorts of evil things; deceit, indecency, jealousy, slander, pride, and folly —
23. all these evil things come from inside a person and make him unclean.”