When he left the crowd and went into the house, his disciples asked him to explain this saying.

"You are no more intelligent than the others," Jesus said to them. "Don't you understand? Nothing that goes into you from the outside can really make you unclean,

"Do you understand these things?" Jesus asked them. "Yes," they answered.

So he replied, "This means, then, that every teacher of the Law who becomes a disciple in the Kingdom of heaven is like a homeowner who takes new and old things out of his storage room."

Peter spoke up, "Explain this saying to us."

Don't you understand? Anything that goes into your mouth goes into your stomach and then on out of your body.

Jesus knew what they were saying, so he asked them, "Why are you discussing among yourselves about not having any bread? What little faith you have!

Don't you understand yet? Don't you remember when I broke the five loaves for the five thousand men? How many baskets did you fill?

Then Jesus said to them, "How foolish you are, how slow you are to believe everything the prophets said!

As a matter of fact, my friends, I could not talk to you as I talk to people who have the Spirit; I had to talk to you as though you belonged to this world, as children in the Christian faith.

I had to feed you milk, not solid food, because you were not ready for it. And even now you are not ready for it,

There is much we have to say about this matter, but it is hard to explain to you, because you are so slow to understand.

Anyone who has to drink milk is still a child, without any experience in the matter of right and wrong.

I rebuke and punish all whom I love. Be in earnest, then, and turn from your sins.