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

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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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