Matthew 15:17–18
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The Lord also calls them senseless for turning about the body, like the Pharisees, and not yet crossing over to the inner human. Foods, then, he says, fill the body; they do not touch the heart. And what does not touch the heart cannot make the true human common or render him unclean (Matthew 15:17–18).
Greek
Καὶ 21 αὐτοὺς ἀσυνέτους ὁ κύριός φησι περὶ τὸ σῶμα στρεφο μένους, ὥσπερ οἱ Φαρισαῖοι, καὶ μηδέπω διαβαίνοντας ἐπὶ τὸν ἔσω ἄνθρωπον. βρώματα οὖν, φησίν, σώματος ἔχει πλήρωσιν, καρδίας δὲ οὐκ ἐφάπτεται. τὸ δὲ καρδίας μὴ ἐφαπτόμενον οὐ δύναται κοινῶσαι τὸν ἄνθρωπον τὸν ἀληθινὸν ἢ μὴ καθαρὸν ἀπεργάσασθαι.