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Mark 7:17

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And when he had entered the house, and left the people, his disciples asked him about the parable.

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

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

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

And when he returned to Caperna-um after some days, it was reported that he was at home.

and the crowd came together again, so that they could not even eat.

And when he was alone, those who were about him with the twelve asked him concerning the parables.

he did not speak to them without a parable, but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.

And he said to them, “Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a man from outside cannot defile him,

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