Cross References

Mark 7:18

The Text-Critical English New Testament

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?

See the chapter Copy

It is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person; it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles a person.”

How could you not understand that I was not talking about bread when I told you to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?”

Then he said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the other parables?

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

For it does not go into his heart but into his stomach; then it goes out into the latrine, thus purifying all foods.”

Then Jesus said to them, “O foolish men, how slow of heart you are to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

Jesus answered him, “Yoʋ are the teacher of Israel, and yoʋ do not understand these things?

I fed you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet able to receive it. Even now you are still not able,

On this topic we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become sluggish in hearing.