tLiterally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
*Here “thus” is supplied as a component of the participle (“declaring”) which is understood as result

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

since it enters not his heart but his stomach, and is expelled?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.)

NIVNew International Version (2011)

For it doesn’t go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.)

CSBChristian Standard Bible

For it doesn’t go into his heart but into the stomach and is eliminated” (thus he declared all foods clean).

NLTNew Living Translation

Food doesn’t go into your heart, but only passes through the stomach and then goes into the sewer.” (By saying this, he declared that every kind of food is acceptable in God’s eyes.)

KJV 1900King James Version

Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?

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