17. And when He went from the crowd into a house, His taught ones asked Him concerning the parable.
18. And He said to them, “Are you also without understanding? Do you not perceive that whatever enters a man from outside is unable to defile him,
19. because it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and is eliminated, thus purging all the foods?”
20. And He said, “What comes out of a man, that defiles a man.
21. “For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil reasonings, adulteries, whorings, murders,
22. thefts, greedy desires, wickednesses, deceit, indecency, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.
23. “All these wicked matters come from within and defile a man.”