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Mark 7:18

New American Bible - revised edition

He said to them, “Are even you likewise without understanding? Do you not realize that everything that goes into a person from outside cannot defile,

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It is not what enters one’s mouth that defiles that person; but what comes out of the mouth is what defiles one.”

How do you not comprehend that I was not speaking to you about bread? Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

Jesus said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? Then how will you understand any of the parables?

When he got home away from the crowd his disciples questioned him about the parable.

since it enters not the heart but the stomach and passes out into the latrine?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.)

And he said to them, “Oh, how foolish you are! How slow of heart to believe all that the prophets spoke!

Jesus answered and said to him, “You are the teacher of Israel and you do not understand this?

I fed you milk, not solid food, because you were unable to take it. Indeed, you are still not able, even now,

About this we have much to say, and it is difficult to explain, for you have become sluggish in hearing.