And He said to them, "Do you not know this parable? How then will you know all the parables?

To whom have we reported evils? And to whom have we reported a message? [Even to those] that are weaned from the milk, who are drawn from the breast.

Except affliction on affliction, hope upon hope; yet a little, [and] yet a little,

Then I said, It may be they are poor; for they are weak, for they know not the way of the Lord, or the judgment of God.

I will go to the rich men, and will speak to them; for they have known the way of the Lord, and the judgment of God. But, behold, with one consent they have broken the yoke, they have burst the bonds.

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

Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach, and is cast out into a latrine?

How is it you do not perceive that I did not speak to you about bread, but to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?"

Then He said to them, "O [you] foolish, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

Jesus answered and said to him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and do not know these things?

I gave you milk to drink, and not solid food; for you were not yet able [to receive it]. Indeed, neither are you now yet able;

concerning whom we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become sluggish in hearing.