Mark 7:23 Meaning and Explanation
“All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.”
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Read Full Chapter →Jesus concludes: all these evils come from within, and they are what defile a person.
What Does Mark 7:23 Mean?
The teaching closes where it began, the principle now filled out with names. Defilement is an inside-out problem; the questioners scrubbed surfaces, but the Lord looketh on the heart (1 Samuel 16:7). With this sentence the controversy that opened the chapter is answered in full.
Yet diagnosis is not despair. The One who names the disease of the heart is the physician who came for the sick (Mark 2:17): he tells us what is within so that he can heal what is within. The chapter now turns to watch that cleansing mercy travel beyond the borders of Israel.
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What does Mark 7:23 mean?
Jesus concludes: all these evils come from within, and they are what defile a person.