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You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said:
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'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me;
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in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.'"
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And he called the people to him and said to them, "Hear and understand:
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not what goes into the mouth defiles a man, but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man."
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Then the disciples came and said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?"
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He answered, "Every plant which my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up.
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Let them alone; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit."
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But Peter said to him, "Explain the parable to us."
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And he said, "Are you also still without understanding?
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Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach, and so passes on?