16. Let those with ears use them and listen.]”
17. When Jesus left the people and went into the house, his followers asked him about this story.
18. Jesus said, “Do you still not understand? Surely you know that nothing that enters someone from the outside can make that person unclean.
19. It does not go into the mind, but into the stomach. Then it goes out of the body.” (When Jesus said this, he meant that no longer was any food unclean for people to eat.)
20. And Jesus said, “The things that come out of people are the things that make them unclean.