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Mark 7:17

The Text-Critical English New Testament

After Jesus had left the crowd and gone into a house, his disciples asked him about the parable.

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

Then Jesus left the crowds and went into the house, and his disciples came to him and said, “Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field.”

Then Peter said to him in response, “Explain this parable to us.”

A few days later Jesus went to Capernaum again, and the people heard that he was at home.

and a crowd came together again, so that Jesus and his disciples could not even eat bread.

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

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

If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.”

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

Now when Jesus came into the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why could we not cast it out?”