¹⁸ and he saith to them, `So also ye are without understanding! Do ye not perceive that nothing from without entering into the man is able to defile him?

¹⁶ And Jesus said, `Are ye also yet without understanding?

¹⁷ do ye not understand that all that is going into the mouth doth pass into the belly, and into the drain is cast forth?

⁹ By whom doth He teach knowledge? And by whom doth He cause to understand the report? The weaned from milk, the removed from breasts,

¹⁰ For rule `is' on rule, rule on rule, line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there,

⁴ And I -- I said, `Surely these `are' poor, They have been foolish, For they have not known the way of Jehovah, The judgment of their God.

⁵ I get me to the great, and I speak with them, For they have known the way of Jehovah, The judgment of their God.' Surely they together have broken the yoke, They have drawn away the bands.

¹¹ how do ye not understand that I did not speak to you of bread -- to take heed of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?'

¹³ And he saith to them, `Have ye not known this simile? and how shall ye know all the similes?

²⁵ And he said unto them, `O inconsiderate and slow in heart, to believe on all that the prophets spake!

¹⁰ Jesus answered and said to him, `Thou art the teacher of Israel -- and these things thou dost not know!

² with milk I fed you, and not with meat, for ye were not yet able, but not even yet are ye now able,

¹¹ concerning whom we have much discourse and of hard explanation to say, since ye have become dull of hearing,