And He said to them, Are you also so without understanding? Do you not perceive that everything entering from the outside into the man is not able to defile him?
It is not the thing entering into the mouth that defiles the man, but the thing coming forth out of the mouth, this defiles the man.
How do you not perceive that it was not about loaves that I said to you to take heed from the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?
And He said to them, Do you not know this parable? And how will you know all the parables?
And when He entered into a house from the crowd, His disciples questioned Him about the parable.
This is because it does not enter into his heart, but into the belly, and goes out into the latrine, purging all the foods.
And He said to them, O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe on all things which the prophets spoke!
Jesus answered and said to him, You are the teacher of Israel, and you do not know these things?
I gave you milk to drink, and not solid food, for you were not then able, for neither are you yet able now.
Concerning whom we have much discourse, and hard to interpret, or to speak, since you have come to be sluggish in the hearings.