He said to them, "So you do not understand, either? Do you not see how nothing outside a man can defile him by entering him?

And he sent him to his house, saying, Thou shouldest not either enter into the town, neither, say to any in the town.

For everyone will be salted with fire. [Note: This meant either the suffering "salt" of fiery trials (the sacrifices of verses 43-47 or the punishing "salt" of being thrown into a fiery hell (verse 45-48)].

Jesus said to them, "Does not this prove that you are wrong in your views, because you do not understand either the Scriptures or the power of God?

Then they went back and told the rest, but they would not believe them either.