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Mark 7:17

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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Then the disciples came and asked him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”

Then he left the crowds and went into the house. And his disciples approached him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds of the field.”

But Peter said to him, “Explain this parable to us.”

When he returned to Capernaum after some days, it was reported that he was at home.

Then he went home, and the crowd came together again, so that they could not even eat.

When he was alone, those who were around him along with the twelve asked him about the parables.

he did not speak to them except in parables, but he explained everything in private to his disciples.

He said to them, “So, are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile,

When he had entered the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why could we not cast it out?”