Mark 7:18

¹⁶So Jesus said, “Do you also still not understand? ¹⁷Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly and then out of the body?

¹¹About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.

⁹Whom will he teach knowledge? To whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts? ¹⁰For it is precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little.

²⁵He said to them, “Foolish people, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

¹¹How is it that you don’t perceive that I didn’t speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

¹⁰Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and don’t understand these things?

⁴Then I said, “Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don’t know the LORD’s way, nor the law of their God. ⁵I will go to the great men and will speak to them, for they know the way of the LORD, and the law of their God.” But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

²I fed you with milk, not with solid food, for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, you aren’t ready even now,

¹³He said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?