18 And he said to them, “Then (A)are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside 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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16 And he said, (A)“Are you also still without understanding? 17 Do you not see that (B)whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled?[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 15:17 Greek is expelled into the latrine

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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Warning Against Apostasy

11 About this we have much to say, and it is (A)hard to explain, since you have become 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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(A)I fed you with milk, not solid food, for (B)you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready,

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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 him, “Are you the teacher of Israel (A)and yet you do not understand 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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25 And he said to them, “O foolish ones, 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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13 (A)And he said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the 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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11 How is it that you fail to understand that I did not speak about bread? (A)Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and 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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Then I said, “These are only the poor;
    they have no sense;
(A)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.”
(B)But they all alike had broken the yoke;
    they had 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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(A)“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?
10 For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
    line upon line, line upon line,
    here a little, 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