Living_Oracles(i)
10 For Moses has said, "Honor your father and mother" and "Whosoever reviles father or mother, shall be punished with death."
11 But you maintain, if a man say to father or mother, "Be it corban (that is, devoted) whatever of mine shall profit you";
12 he must not thenceforth do anything for his father or mother;
13 thus invalidating the word of God, by the tradition which you have established. And in many other instances you act thus.
14 Then having called the whole multitude, he said to them, Hearken to me all of you, and be instructed.
15 There is nothing from without, which entering into the man, can pollute him; but the things which proceed from within the man, are the things that pollute him.
16 If any man has ears to hear, let him hear.
17 When he had withdrawn from the people into a house, his disciples asked him the meaning of that sentence.
18 He answered, Are you also void of understanding? Do you not perceive, that whatsoever from without enters into the man, can not pollute him;
19 because it enters not into his heart, but into his stomach, whence all impurities in the victuals pass into the sink.
20 But, added he, that which proceeds out of the man, is what pollutes the man:
21 for from within the human heart proceed vicious machinations, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts,
22 insatiable desires, malevolence, fraud, immodesty, envy, calumny, arrogance, levity.
23 All these evils issue from within, and pollute the man.