Mark 7:18

New Living Translation

“Don’t you understand either?” he asked. “Can’t you see that the food you put into your body cannot defile you?

Cross References

Matthew 15:11

It’s not what goes into your mouth that defiles you; you are defiled by the words that come out of your mouth.”

Matthew 16:11

Why can’t you understand that I’m not talking about bread? So again I say, ‘Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.’”

Mark 4:13

Then Jesus said to them, “If you can’t understand the meaning of this parable, how will you understand all the other parables?

Mark 7:17

Then Jesus went into a house to get away from the crowd, and his disciples asked him what he meant by the parable he had just used.

Mark 7:19

Food doesn’t go into your heart, but only passes through the stomach and then goes into the sewer.” (By saying this, he declared that every kind of food is acceptable in God’s eyes.)

Luke 24:25

Then Jesus said to them, “You foolish people! You find it so hard to believe all that the prophets wrote in the Scriptures.

John 3:10

Jesus replied, “You are a respected Jewish teacher, and yet you don’t understand these things?

1 Corinthians 3:2

I had to feed you with milk, not with solid food, because you weren’t ready for anything stronger. And you still aren’t ready,

Hebrews 5:11

There is much more we would like to say about this, but it is difficult to explain, especially since you are spiritually dull and don’t seem to listen.