Friday, May 27, 2016

Clean

Matthew 15:17 - "Do you not understand that every thing that goes into the mouth and into the stomach passes and is cast out into the sewer?"

Here Jesus is redefining cleanliness. The Jewish idea was ritual purity, meant to remind them that food was God's gift and they were to be pure while eating. Jesus flips this idea and states that food is not unclean. What is put into the mouth is not unclean. Tomorrow he will state that it is our attitudes - shot through with original sin - that are unclean. We may get sick from not washing our hands before we eat, but not washing our hands does not make us unclean.
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