What an interest God has in those who profess His name! In this chapter are such repetitions of the word “Unclean,” that one can hardly count them. It is one word from God, one more chapter to show us, if we have eyes to see and, ears to hear, that all that comes out of the “natural man”, out of the human heart, is bad.
In verse 2, the sick man is unclean. In verse 4, his bed, or whatever he sits on, is unclean. Further on, whoever touches the sick man, or touches anything he sat on, is unclean. There are other examples throughout the chapter, and all point to the same thing—all are “under sin; ... there is none righteous” (Rom. 3:9, 109What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; 10As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: (Romans 3:9‑10)); “for from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, ‘pride. foolishness; all these evil things come from within, and defile the man.” Mark 7:21-23,21For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 22Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: 23All these evil things come from within, and defile the man. (Mark 7:21‑23)
Human nature is hopelessly bad, defiled and defiling. There is no remedy. Nothing will do but to be born again. Have you been born again, dear reader?