Evil thoughts (ο διαλογισμο ο κακο). These come out of the heart (εκ της καρδιας), the inner man, and lead to the dreadful list he…

Pseudo-Chrysostom: The Jews focus on and complain about only the bodily purification of the law; our Lord wishes to int…

The main force of this passage is the same as in v.15b: the source of uncleanness in anyone is the heart (Jeremiah 17:9), for that is w…

For from within, out of the heart of man
The inside of man is very bad, his inward part is not only wicked, but wick…

Our wicked thoughts and affections, words and actions, defile us, and these only. As a corrupt fountain sends forth corrupt streams, so does a corr…