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Then His disciples came and said to Him, "Do You know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?"

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But He answered and said, "Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted.

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Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a ditch.

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Then Peter answered and said to Him, "Explain this parable to us."

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So Jesus said, "Are you also still without understanding?

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Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated?

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But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man.

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For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.

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These are the things which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man.

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Then Jesus went out from there and departed to the region of Tyre and Sidon.