And He said to them, Are you also without understanding? Do you not perceive that whatever enters into the man from outside cannot defile him,
of whom we have much to say, and hard to be explained since you are dull of hearing.
And He said to them, O fools and slow of heart to believe all things that the prophets spoke!
How is it that you do not understand that I did not speak to you about loaves, but to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?
I have fed you with milk and not with solid food, for you were not yet able to bear it; nor are you able even now.
Jesus answered and said to him, Are you the teacher of Israel and do not know these things?
And He said to them, Do you not know this parable? And how then will you know all parables?
Not that which goes into the mouth defiles a man; but that which comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.
And when He had entered into the house away from the crowd, His disciples asked Him concerning the parable.
because it does not enter into his heart, but into the belly, and goes out into the waste-bowl, purifying all food?