And he said to them, “Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him,
And he said, “Are you also still without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled?
About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.
And he said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!
How is it that you fail to understand that I did not speak about bread? Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
“To whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, those taken from the breast? For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little.”
I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready,
Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand these things?
And he said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables?
Then I said, “These are only the poor; they have no sense; for they do not know the way of the Lord, the justice of their God. I will go to the great and will speak to them, for they know the way of the Lord, the justice of their God.” But they all alike had broken the yoke; they had burst the bonds.
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