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Mark 7:18

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Jesus said to them, “Don’t you understand? Don’t you know that whatever goes into a person from the outside can’t make him unclean?

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We have a lot to explain about this. But since you have become too lazy to pay attention, explaining it to you is hard.

Then Jesus said to them, “How foolish you are! You’re so slow to believe everything the prophets said!

Why don’t you understand that I wasn’t talking to you about bread? Watch out for the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!”

I gave you milk to drink. I didn’t give you solid food because you weren’t ready for it. Even now you aren’t ready for it

Jesus told Nicodemus, “You’re a well-known teacher of Israel. Can’t you understand this?

Jesus asked them, “Don’t you understand this story? How, then, will you understand any of the stories I use as illustrations?

What goes into a person’s mouth doesn’t make him unclean. It’s what comes out of the mouth that makes a person unclean.”

When he had left the people and gone home, his disciples asked him about this illustration.

It doesn’t go into his thoughts but into his stomach and then into a toilet.” (By saying this, Jesus declared all foods acceptable.)