“After Jesus had left the crowd and gone into the house, His disciples inquired about the parable.”
Mark 7:17 (BSB)
Context Reading
15Nothing that enters a man from the outside can defile him; but the things that come out of a man, these are what defile him.” 17After Jesus had left the crowd and gone into the house, His disciples inquired about the parable. 18“Are you still so dull?” He asked. “Do you not understand? Nothing that enters a man from the outside can defile him, 19because it does not enter his heart, but it goes into the stomach and then is eliminated.” (Thus all foods are clean.)