Mark 7:18
Good News Translation
"You are no more intelligent than the others," Jesus said to them. "Don't you understand? Nothing that goes into you from the outside can really make you unclean,

New Revised Standard Version
He said to them, “Then do you also fail to understand? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile,

Contemporary English Version
He answered, "Don't you know what I am talking about by now? You surely know that the food you put into your mouth cannot make you unclean.

New American Bible
He said to them, “Are even you likewise without understanding? Do you not realize that everything that goes into a person from outside cannot defile,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he saith to them: So are you also without knowledge? Understand you not that every thing from without entering into a man cannot defile him:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he saith to them: So are you also without knowledge? Understand you not that every thing from without entering into a man cannot defile him:

Mark 4:13 And he saith to them: Are you ignorant of this, parable? and how shall you know all parables?

Isaiah 28:9,10 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand the hearing? them that are weaned from the milk, that are drawn away from the breasts. . . .

Jeremiah 5:4,5 But I said: Perhaps these are poor and foolish, that know not the way of the Lord, the judgment of their God. . . .

Matthew 15:16,17 But he said: Are you also yet without understanding? . . .

Matthew 16:11 Why do you not understand that it was not concerning bread I said to you: Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?

Luke 24:25 Then he said to them: O foolish and slow of heart to believe in all things, Which the prophets have spoken.

John 3:10 Jesus answered and said to him: Art thou a master in Israel, and knowest not these things?

1 Corinthians 3:2 I gave you milk to drink, not meat: for you were not able as yet. But neither indeed are you now able: for you are yet carnal.

Hebrews 5:11 Of whom we have much to say and hard to be intelligibly uttered: because you are become weak to hear.

Context
What Defiles a Man
17And when he was come into the house from the multitude, his disciples asked him the parable. 18And he saith to them: So are you also without knowledge? Understand you not that every thing from without entering into a man cannot defile him: 19Because it entereth not into his heart but goeth into his belly and goeth out into the privy, purging all meats?…
Cross References
Matthew 15:11
Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man: but what cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.

Mark 7:17
And when he was come into the house from the multitude, his disciples asked him the parable.

Mark 7:19
Because it entereth not into his heart but goeth into his belly and goeth out into the privy, purging all meats?

Mark 7:17
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