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You are hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he said about you:
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'These people show honor to me with words, but their hearts are far from me.
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Their worship of me is worthless. The things they teach are nothing but human rules.'"
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After Jesus called the crowd to him, he said, "Listen and understand what I am saying.
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It is not what people put into their mouths that makes them unclean. It is what comes out of their mouths that makes them unclean."
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Then his followers came to him and asked, "Do you know that the Pharisees are angry because of what you said?"
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Jesus answered, "Every plant that my Father in heaven has not planted himself will be pulled up by the roots.
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Stay away from the Pharisees; they are blind leaders. And if a blind person leads a blind person, both will fall into a ditch."
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Peter said, "Explain the example to us."
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Jesus said, "Do you still not understand?
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Surely you know that all the food that enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then goes out of the body.