Defilement
He then called the crowd together and said, “Listen, and take this to heart. It’s not what you swallow that pollutes your life, but what you vomit up.”
MSG Matthew 15:10-11
Jesus replied, “You, too? Are you being willfully stupid? Don’t you know that anything that is swallowed works its way through the intestines and is finally defecated? But what comes out of the mouth gets its start in the heart. It’s from the heart that we vomit up evil arguments, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, lies, and cussing. That’s what pollutes. Eating or not eating certain foods, washing or not washing your hands—that’s neither here nor there.”
MSG Matthew 15:17-20
Parallel account in Mark 7:14-15 and Mark 7:18-23.
Jesus’ teaching is:
- Food cannot spiritually defile you.
- Words and actions reveal the heart — and that is where defilement comes from.
This was a major shift from ritual purity laws to moral purity of the heart.
Koran Contradiction 