And He said to them, “Are you also without understanding? Do you not perceive that whatever enters a man from outside is unable to defile him,
“Not that which goes into the mouth defiles the man, but that which comes out of the mouth, this defiles the man.”
“How is it that you do not understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread, but to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?”
And He said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? How then shall you understand all the parables?
And when He went from the crowd into a house, His taught ones asked Him concerning the parable.
because it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and is eliminated, thus purging all the foods?”
And He said to them, “O thoughtless ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!
יהושע answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Yisra’ĕ
I fed you with milk and not with solid food, for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able,
concerning whom we have much to say, and hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.