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The Heart, Not the Stomach
Commentators agree that Jesus's core point is that spiritual purity is an internal matter. Food enters the stomach and is physically processed, but it cannot touch the "heart"—what scholars identify as the center of a person's thoughts, will, and character. Therefore, external things like food cannot spiritually defile a person; only what comes from the heart can.
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Albert Barnes
On Mark 7:19
18th Century
Theologian
Entereth not into his heart. It does not reach or affect the mind or the soul, and consequently cannot pollute it. Even if it should affec…
AT Robertson
On Mark 7:19
Making all meats clean (καθαριζων παντα τα βρωματα). This anacoluthon can be understood by repeating
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Charles Ellicott
On Mark 7:19
19th Century
Bishop
It entereth not into his heart.—The words are not in Matthew, and emphasize the contrast with what follows. The “heart” is, after …
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Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Mark 7:19
After leaving the crowd, Jesus entered a house and was teaching the disciples privately (cf. 9:28, 33; 10:10). Although the disciples had already s…
John Gill
On Mark 7:19
17th Century
Pastor
Because it enters not into his heart
Which is the seat and fountain of all moral pollution; and if that is not defil…
Matthew Henry
On Mark 7:14–23
17th Century
Minister
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…