Mark 7:20 (BSB)
He continued: “What comes out of a man, that is what defiles him.
Commentary on Mark 7:20
- 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 7:20: For from within, out of the heart of man,.... The inside of man is very bad, his inward part is not only wicked, but wickedness itself, yea, very wickedness, Psa 5:9, in him dwells no good thing naturally, his heart is wicked, and desperately so; it is full of evil; and out of the abundance of it, proceed the evil things hereafter mentioned; all its...
- Albert Barnes (Presbyterian), Barnes' New Testament Notes on Mark 7:20: Verse 20. That which cometh out of the man. His words; the expression of his thoughts and feelings; his conduct, as the expression of in- ward malice, anger, covetousness, lust, etc. Defileth the man. Is really polluted, or offensive in the sight of God. They render the soul corrupt and abominable in the sight of God. See . �