8. Having no regard for the command of God, you hold fast to human tradition.”
9. He also said to them, “You neatly reject the commandment of God in order to set up your tradition.
10. For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.’
11. But you say that if anyone tells his father or mother, ‘Whatever help you would have received from me is corban’ (that is, a gift for God),
12. then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother.
13. Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like this.”
14. Then he called the crowd again and said to them, “Listen to me, everyone, and understand.
15. There is nothing outside of a person that can defile him by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles him.”
17. Now when Jesus had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about the parable.
18. He said to them, “Are you so foolish? Don’t you understand that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him?
19. For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then goes out into the sewer.” (This means all foods are clean.)
20. He said, “What comes out of a person defiles him.
21. For from within, out of the human heart, come evil ideas, sexual immorality, theft, murder,
22. adultery, greed, evil, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, pride, and folly.
23. All these evils come from within and defile a person.”
24. After Jesus left there, he went to the region of Tyre. When he went into a house, he did not want anyone to know, but he was not able to escape notice.