18"Are you so dull?" he asked. "Don't you see that nothing that enters a man from the outside can make him 'unclean'?


In Context

14 Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, "Listen to me, everyone, and understand this.

15 Nothing outside a man can make him 'unclean' by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a man that makes him 'unclean.' "

17 After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about this parable.

18 "Are you so dull?" he asked. "Don't you see that nothing that enters a man from the outside can make him 'unclean'?

19 For it doesn't go into his heart but into his stomach, and then out of his body." (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods "clean.")

20 He went on: "What comes out of a man is what makes him 'unclean.'

Mark 7:18 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:18And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, [it] cannot defile him;

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

7:18And he saith to them: So are you also without knowledge? understand you not that every thing from without, entering into a man cannot defile him:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

7:18And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Perceive ye not, that whatsoever from without goeth into the man, it cannot defile him;

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:18And he says to them, Are ye also thus unintelligent? Do ye not perceive that all that is outside entering into the man cannot defile him,

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

7:18And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Perceive ye not, that whatsoever from without goeth into the man, it cannot defile him;

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:18And he saith to them, Are ye so void of understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:18He said to them, |Are you thus without understanding also? Don't you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can't defile him,

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

7:18and he saith to them, 'So also ye are without understanding! Do ye not perceive that nothing from without entering into the man is able to defile him?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:18And he said to them, Are you so without understanding also? Do you not perceive, that whatever thing from without enters into the man, it cannot defile him;