² and saw some of his disciples eating food with hands that were defiled,^(A) that is, unwashed.

¹⁵ Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them.”

¹⁸ “Are you so dull?” he asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them?

¹⁴ “Surely not, Lord!”^(A) Peter replied. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.”^(B)

¹⁵ The voice spoke to him a second time, “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”^(A)