"Listen to me, all of you, and understand: there is nothing outside a person that by going in can defile, but the things that come out are what defile. For it is from within, from the human heart, that evil intentions come: fornication, theft, murder, adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, folly."
My bet is that the list of all the 'nasty things' was added later by understandably well meaning folk trying to create a well-behaved community. I think Jesus would have left the burden on each listening 'heart' to figure out what was muddying up its own wellspring.
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