Jesus said, “Do you still not understand? Surely you know that nothing that enters someone from the outside can make that person unclean.
It is not what people put into their mouths that makes them unclean. It is what comes out of their mouths that makes them unclean.”
I was not talking to you about bread. Why don’t you understand that? I am telling you to beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.”
Then Jesus said to his followers, “Don’t you understand this story? If you don’t, how will you understand any story?
When Jesus left the people and went into the house, his followers asked him about this story.
It does not go into the mind, but into the stomach. Then it goes out of the body.” (When Jesus said this, he meant that no longer was any food unclean for people to eat.)
Then Jesus said to them, “You are foolish and slow to believe everything the prophets said.
Jesus said, “You are an important teacher in Israel, and you don’t understand these things?
The teaching I gave you was like milk, not solid food, because you were not able to take solid food. And even now you are not ready.
We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain because you are so slow to understand.