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Mark 7:18

New King James Version

So He said to them, “Are you thus without understanding also? Do you not perceive that whatever enters a man from outside cannot defile him,

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of whom we have much to say, and hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.

Then He said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

How is it you do not understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread?—but to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able;

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 understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables?

Not what goes into the mouth defiles a man; but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.”

When He had entered a house away from the crowd, His disciples asked Him concerning the parable.

because it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and is eliminated, thus purifying all foods?”