Mark 7:18

The Passion Translation

He answered them, “Are you as dull as the rest? Don’t you understand that you are not defiled by what you eat?

Cross References

Matthew 15:11

What truly contaminates a person is not what he puts into his mouth but what comes out of his mouth. That’s what makes people defiled.”

Matthew 16:11

Don’t you understand? I’m not talking about bread, but I’m warning you to avoid the yeast of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.”

Mark 4:13

Then he said to them, “If you don’t understand this parable, how will you understand any parable?

Mark 7:17

When Jesus went back home and away from the crowd, his disciples acknowledged that they didn’t understand the meaning of the parable and asked him to explain it.

Mark 7:19

For the food you swallow doesn’t enter your heart, but goes into your stomach, only to pass out into the sewer.” (This means all foods are clean.)

Luke 24:25

Jesus said to them, “Why are you so thick-headed? Why do you find it so hard to believe every word the prophets have spoken?

John 3:10

Jesus answered, “Nicodemus, aren’t you the respected teacher in Israel, and yet you don’t understand this revelation?

1 Corinthians 3:2

I had to nurse you and feed you with “milk,” not with the solid food of more advanced teachings, because you weren’t ready for it. In fact, you are still not ready to be fed solid food,

Hebrews 5:11

We have much to say about this topic although it is difficult to explain, because you have become too dull and sluggish to understand.