He went on: what comes out of a person is what defiles them — the positive restatement of the principle: defilement is outward-from-inward, not inward-from-outward. What comes out of a person — speech, action, attitude — is the moral reality that the purity system is ultimately trying to address. The external purity regulations were meant to point toward and cultivate internal moral purity; they have been treated as sufficient in themselves. Jesus is not abolishing the system but restoring its purpose.

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