Cross References

Mark 7:18

New International Version

“Are you so dull?” he asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them?

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What goes into someone’s mouth does not defile them, but what comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them.”

How is it you don’t understand that I was not talking to you about bread? But be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

Then Jesus said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How then will you understand any parable?

After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about this parable.

For it doesn’t go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.)

He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

“You are Israel’s teacher,” said Jesus, “and do you not understand these things?

I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready.

We have much to say about this, but it is hard to make it clear to you because you no longer try to understand.