Verse 18

He said to them,“Are you so foolish? Don’t you understand that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him?

Referenced Verses

• Matt 15:16-17 : 16 Jesus said,“Even after all this, are you still so foolish? 17 Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach and then passes out into the sewer?
• Matt 16:11 : 11 How could you not understand that I was not speaking to you about bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!”
• Mark 4:13 : 13 He said to them,“Don’t you understand this parable? Then how will you understand any parable?
• Luke 24:25 : 25 So he said to them,“You foolish people– how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!
• John 3:10 : 10 Jesus answered,“Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you don’t understand these things?
• 1 Cor 3:2 : 2 I fed you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready. In fact, you are still not ready,
• Heb 5:11 : 11 The Need to Move on to Maturity On this topic we have much to say and it is difficult to explain, since you have become sluggish in hearing.
• Isa 28:9-9 : 9 Who is the LORD trying to teach? To whom is he explaining a message? Those just weaned from milk! Those just taken from their mother’s breast! 10 Indeed, they will hear meaningless gibberish, senseless babbling, a syllable here, a syllable there.
• Jer 5:4-5 : 4 I thought,“Surely it is only the ignorant poor who act this way. They act like fools because they do not know what the LORD demands. They do not know what their God requires of them. 5 I will go to the leaders and speak with them. Surely they know what the LORD demands. Surely they know what their God requires of them.” Yet all of them, too, have rejected his authority and refuse to submit to him.