Mark 7:17

James Moffatt - New Testament

Now when he went indoors away from the crowd, his disciples asked him the meaning of this parabolic saying.

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Peter answered, "Explain this parable to us at anyrate."

Then he left the crowds and went indoors. And his disciples came up to him saying, "Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field."

When he went indoors his disciples asked him in private, "Why could we not cast it out?"

he never spoke to them except by way of parable, but in private he explained everything to his own disciples.

When he was by himself his adherents and the twelve asked him about the parable,

Then the disciples came up and said to him, "Why do you speak in parables?"

When he entered Capharnahum again after some days it was reported that he was at home,

but the crowd gathered again, so that it was impossible even to have a meal.

If anyone has ears to hear, let him listen to this."

He said to them, "So you do not understand, either? Do you not see how nothing outside a man can defile him by entering him?