He said to them, “So, are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile,
it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles.”
How could you fail to perceive that I was not speaking about bread? Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!”
And he said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? Then how will you understand all the parables?
When he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about the parable.
since it enters not the heart but the stomach and goes out into the sewer?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.)
Then he said to them, “Oh, how foolish you are and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have declared!
Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand these things?
I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for solid food. Even now you are still not ready,
About this we have much to say that is hard to explain, since you have become sluggish in hearing.