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Mark 7:16-18
New King James Version
Mark 7:16-18
New King James Version
16 (A)If[a] anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!”
17 (B)When He had entered a house away from the crowd, His disciples asked Him concerning the parable. 18 So He said to them, (C)“Are you thus without understanding also? Do you not perceive that whatever enters a man from outside cannot defile him,
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Mark 7:16-18
New International Version
Mark 7:16-18
New International Version
[16] [a]
17 After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him(A) about this parable. 18 “Are you so dull?” he asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them?
Footnotes
- Mark 7:16 Some manuscripts include here the words of 4:23.
Mark 7:16-18
King James Version
Mark 7:16-18
King James Version
16 If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
17 And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.
18 And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;
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Mark 7:16-18
English Standard Version
Mark 7:16-18
English Standard Version
17 And when he had entered (A)the house and left the people, (B)his disciples asked him about the parable. 18 And he said to them, “Then (C)are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him,
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