¹⁸ He said to them, "Are you thus without understanding also? Don't you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can't defile him,

¹⁶ So Jesus said, "Do you also still not understand?

¹⁷ Don't you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly, and then out of the body?

⁹ Whom will he teach knowledge? and whom will he make to understand the message? those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?

¹⁰ For it is precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little.

⁴ Then I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish; for they don't know the way of Yahweh, nor the law of their God:

⁵ I will get me to the great men, and will speak to them; for they know the way of Yahweh, and the law of their God. But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

¹¹ How 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."

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

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

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

² I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren't yet ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready,

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