Matthew 15:12-21 (Gospel)
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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.