Mark 7:19

Mark 7:19 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
• New International Version (NIV)For it doesn’t go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.)
• English Standard Version (ESV)since it enters not his heart but his stomach, and is expelled?" (Thus he declared all foods clean.)
• New King James Version (NKJV)because it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and is eliminated, thus purifying all foods?”

Context of Mark 7:19

17When he had left the people and gone home, his disciples asked him about this illustration. 18Jesus 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? It doesn’t go into his thoughts but into his stomach and then into a toilet.” (By saying this, Jesus declared all foods acceptable.) 20He continued, “It’s what comes out of a person that makes him unclean. 21Evil thoughts, sexual sins, stealing, murder,

Mark 7:19 word by word

ὅτι οὐκ εἰσπορεύεται αὐτοῦ εἰς τὴν καρδίαν ἀλλ᾽ εἰς τὴν κοιλίαν καὶ εἰς τὸν ἀφεδρῶνα ἐκπορεύεται καθαρίζων πάντα τὰ βρώματα.Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Becauseὅτιhoti · that/since: sinceG3754
• it enterethεἰσπορεύωeisporeuomai · to enterG1531
• notοὐou · noG3756
• intoεἰςeis · towardG1519
• hisαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846
• heartὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• heartκαρδίαkardia · heartG2588
• butἀλλάalla · butG235
• the bellyκοιλίαkoilia · belly/womb/stomachG2836
• andκαίkai · andG2532
• goeth outἐκπορεύωekporeuomai · to departG1607
• the draughtἀφεδρώνaphedrōn · latrineG856
• purgingκαθαρίζωkatharizō · to cleanG2511
• allπᾶςpas · allG3956
• meatsβρῶμαbrōma · foodG1033

Cross-references for Mark 7:19

• Matthew 15:17Don’t you know that whatever goes into the mouth goes into the stomach and then into a toilet?
• 1 Corinthians 6:13Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food, but God will put an end to both of them. However, the body is not for sexual sin but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.
• Colossians 2:21People will tell you, “Don’t handle this! Don’t taste or touch that!”

Commentaries on Mark 7:19

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 19Into the draught - See on Matthew 15:17; (note). Purging all meats? - For what is separated from the different aliments taken into the stomach, and thrown out of the body, is the innutritious parts of all the meats that are eaten; and thus they are purged, nothing being left behind but what is proper for the support of the body.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1-23Verses 1-23 See this passage explained in the notes at Mark 7:1 Came from Jerusalem - Probably to observe his conduct, and to find matter of accusation against him. Mark 7:2 Defiled hands - The hands were considered defiled or polluted unless they were washed previous to every meal. Mark 7:3 Except they wash their hands oft - Our word “oft” means frequently, often. The Greek wore translated oft has been rendered various ways. Some have said that it means…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 14-23Verses 14-23 Our wicked thoughts and affections, words and actions, defile us, and these only. As a corrupt fountain sends forth corrupt streams, so does a corrupt heart send forth corrupt reasonings, corrupt appetites and passions, and all the wicked words and actions that come from them. A spiritual understanding of the law of God, and a sense of the evil of sin, will cause a man to seek for the grace of the Holy Spirit, to keep down the evil thoughts…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 14-23The second argument of Jesus against the Pharisees was a proverb he told the crowd. Later, in a private setting, Jesus explained it to his disciples (7:17–23). It concerns moral distinctions about eating (rules about what is right or wrong to eat). Eating affects the system that processes food, but moral issues involve the heart. The heart is a metaphor for where a person makes moral decisions. How a person eats (with ceremonially clean or unclean hands)…Read the comment

Topics related to Mark 7:19

• Commandments
• Ecclesiasticism
• Jesus, the Christ

In the dictionaries

• Abundance
• Covetousness
• Hold
• String
• Ablution
• Belly
• Defile; Defilement
• Draught
• Jesus Christ
• Law in the New Testament

Commentaries on Mark 7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Catena Aurea
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• John Lightfoot Commentary
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings