Mark 7:18

He replied: Do you not understand? Do you not know that which goes into the man from the outside cannot defile him?

Who is he is trying to teach? To whom is he explaining his message? To children weaned from their milk, to those just taken from the breast?

I thought: These are only the poor and ignorant. They are foolish. They do not know what their God requires, what Jehovah wants them to do.

He replied: Are you, like them, without wisdom?

Why do you not understand I was not talking about bread? Instead, about keeping away from the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?

Then he asked: Do you not understand this illustration? How will you understand any of the illustrations?

He said to them: You are foolish men. You are slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

Jesus answered: Are you a teacher of Israel and you do not understand these things?

I fed you milk and not solid food. You were not able to receive it. You are not able now!

We have many things to say about him and it is hard to explain it to you, for you are dull of hearing (slow to learn).

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