Mark 7:19 (BSB)
because it does not enter his heart, but it goes into the stomach and then is eliminated.” (Thus all foods are clean.)
Commentary on Mark 7:19
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Mark 7:1-23: One great design of Christ's coming, was, to set aside the ceremonial law which God made, and to put an end to it; to make way for which he begins with the ceremonial law which men had made, and added to the law of God's making, and discharges his disciples from the obligation of that; which here he doth fully, upon occasion of the offence...
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Mark 7:19: And he said,.... Continued to say in his discourse; though this is left but in the Syriac version; that which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man; meaning, not his excrements, which were unclean by the law, Deu 23:13 but what comes out of his heart, by his mouth; or is expressed in action, as appears by what follows; See Gill on Mat 15:18.
- Albert Barnes (Presbyterian), Barnes' New Testament Notes on Mark 7:19: Verse 19. Entereth not into his heart. Does not reach or affect the mind, the soul, and consequently cannot pollute it. Even if it should affect the body, yet it cannot the soul, and consequently cannot need to be cleansed by a religious ordinance. The notions of the Pharisees, therefore, are not founded in reason, but are mere superstition. The draught. The sink, the vault.
- Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Mark 7:19: Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats? (h) For that which goes into the draught purges all meats.