But He answered and said, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes out of the mouth of God.’”

And He opened His mouth and began to teach them, saying,

You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, express any good things? For the mouth speaks from that which fills the heart.

This was so that what was spoken through the prophet would be fulfilled: “I will open My mouth in parables; I will proclaim things hidden since the foundation of the world.”

It is not what enters the mouth that defiles the person, but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles the person.”

Do you not understand that everything that goes into the mouth passes into the stomach, and is eliminated?

But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and those things defile the person.

However, so that we do not offend them, go to the sea and throw in a hook, and take the first fish that comes up; and when you open its mouth, you will find a stater. Take that and give it to them for you and Me.”

and they said to Him, “Do You hear what these children are saying?” And Jesus *said to them, “Yes. Have you never read, ‘From the mouths of infants and nursing babies You have prepared praise for Yourself’?”

and whenever it seizes him, it slams him to the ground, and he foams at the mouth and grinds his teeth and becomes stiff. And I told Your disciples so that they would cast it out, but they could not do it.”

And they brought the boy to Him. When he saw Him, the spirit immediately threw him into convulsions, and falling to the ground, he began rolling around and foaming at the mouth.

And at once his mouth was opened and his tongue freed, and he began speaking in praise of God.

Just as He spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets from ancient times—

The good person out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth what is good; and the evil person out of the evil treasure brings forth what is evil; for his mouth speaks from that which fills his heart.

and a spirit seizes him and he suddenly screams, and it throws him into a convulsion with foaming at the mouth; and only with difficulty does it leave him, mauling him as it leaves.

And then they said, “What further need do we have of testimony? For we have heard it ourselves from His own mouth!”

A jar full of sour wine was standing there; so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a branch of hyssop and brought it up to His mouth.

“Brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit foretold by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus.

But the things which God previously announced by the mouths of all the prophets, that His Christ would suffer, He has fulfilled in this way.

whom heaven must receive until the period of restoration of all things, about which God spoke by the mouths of His holy prophets from ancient times.

who by the Holy Spirit, through the mouth of our father David Your servant, said, ‘Why were the nations insolent, And the peoples plotting in vain?

Now the passage of Scripture which he was reading was this: “He was led like a sheep to slaughter; And like a lamb that is silent before its shearer, So He does not open His mouth.

Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture he preached Jesus to him.

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Opening his mouth, Peter said: “I most certainly understand now that God is not one to show partiality,

But I said, ‘By no means, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’