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Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and 'Anyone who says cruel things to his father or mother must be put to death.'
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But you say a person can tell his father or mother, 'I have something I could use to help you, but it is Corban -- a gift to God.'
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You no longer let that person use that money for his father or his mother.
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By your own rules, which you teach people, you are rejecting what God said. And you do many things like that."
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After Jesus called the crowd to him again, he said, "Every person should listen to me and understand what I am saying.
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There is nothing people put into their bodies that makes them unclean. People are made unclean by the things that come out of them."
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When Jesus left the people and went into the house, his followers asked him about this story.
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Jesus said, "Do you still not understand? Surely you know that nothing that enters someone from the outside can make that person unclean.
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It does not go into the mind, but into the stomach. Then it goes out of the body." (When Jesus said this, he meant that no longer was any food unclean for people to eat.)
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And Jesus said, "The things that come out of people are the things that make them unclean.