18 And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;

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18 “Are you so dull?” he asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them?

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11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.

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Warning Against Falling Away(A)

11 We have much to say about this, but it is hard to make it clear to you because you no longer try to understand.

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25 Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:

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25 He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

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11 How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?

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11 How is it you don’t understand that I was not talking to you about bread? But be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

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16 And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?

17 Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?

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16 “Are you still so dull?”(A) Jesus asked them. 17 “Don’t you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body?

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Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the Lord, nor the judgment of their God.

I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the Lord, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

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I thought, “These are only the poor;
    they are foolish,(A)
for they do not know(B) the way of the Lord,
    the requirements of their God.
So I will go to the leaders(C)
    and speak to them;
surely they know the way of the Lord,
    the requirements of their God.”
But with one accord they too had broken off the yoke
    and torn off the bonds.(D)

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Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.

10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

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“Who is it he is trying to teach?(A)
    To whom is he explaining his message?(B)
To children weaned(C) from their milk,(D)
    to those just taken from the breast?
10 For it is:
    Do this, do that,
    a rule for this, a rule for that[a];
    a little here, a little there.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 28:10 Hebrew / sav lasav sav lasav / kav lakav kav lakav (probably meaningless sounds mimicking the prophet’s words); also in verse 13

I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.

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I gave you milk, not solid food,(A) for you were not yet ready for it.(B) Indeed, you are still not ready.

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10 Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?

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10 “You are Israel’s teacher,”(A) said Jesus, “and do you not understand these things?

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13 And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?

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13 Then Jesus said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How then will you understand any parable?

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