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Mark 7:19

Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?

KJV

ὅτι οὐκ εἰσπορεύεται αὐτοῦ εἰς τὴν καρδίαν ἀλλ’ εἰς τὴν κοιλίαν, καὶ εἰς τὸν ἀφεδρῶνα ἐκπορεύεται, καθαρίζων πάντα τὰ βρώματα;

Greek NT

quia non intrat in cor ejus, sed in ventrum vadit, et in secessum exit, purgans omnes escas ?

Vulgate

because it goeth not into his heart, but into his belly, and goeth out into the draught? This he said, making all meats clean.

ASV

Because it entereth not into his heart but goeth into his belly and goeth out into the privy, purging all meats?

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

15 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
βρῶμα
broma
noun · 17×
εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
εἰσπορεύομαι
eisporeuomai
verb · 18×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
καθαρίζω
katharizo
verb · 31×
καρδία
kardia
noun · 156×
κοιλία
koilia
noun · 23×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
πᾶς
pas
adjective · 1226×
ἀλλά
alla
conjunction · 636×
ἀφεδρών
aphedron
noun · 2×
ἐκπορεύομαι
ekporeuomai
verb · 33×
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

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SBLGNT: καθαρίζων | WH/Treg/NIV: καθαρίζων | RP: καθαρίζον
  • καθαρίζωνSBLGNT
  • καθαρίζωνWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • καθαρίζονRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§574From the beginning of Jesus' public ministry, certain Pharisees and partisans of Herod together with priests and scribes agreed together to destroy him.317 Because of certain acts of his expelling demons, forgiving sins, healing on the sabbath day, his novel interpretation of the precepts of the Law regarding purity, and his familiarity with tax collectors and public sinners318…
§582Going even further, Jesus perfects the dietary law, so important in Jewish daily life, by revealing its pedagogical meaning through a divine interpretation: "Whatever goes into a man from outside cannot defile him. . . (Thus he declared all foods clean.). . . What comes out of a man is what defiles a man. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts. . ."346 In …
1. Introduction to the Feeding of the Five Thousand. And when even had come His disciples came to Him, Matthew 14:15 that is, at the consummation of the age in regard to which we may fitly say what is found in the Epistle of John, It is the last hour. 1 John 2:18 They, not yet understanding what the Word was about to do, say to Him, The place is desert, Matthew 14:15 seeing the…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 6:13 — Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
  • Acts 10:15 — And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
  • Acts 10:15 — And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
  • Acts 11:9 — But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
  • Col 2:16 — Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
  • Col 2:16 — Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
  • Col 2:21 — (Touch not; taste not; handle not;
  • Luke 11:41 — But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you.
  • Matt 15:17 — Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
  • Rom 14:1 — Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.