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Then his disciples came and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this word?
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But he answered and said, Every plant which my heavenly Father has not planted shall be rooted up.
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Let them alone; they are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into a pit.
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Then Peter answered and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable.
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And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?
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Do not ye yet understand that whatever enters in at the mouth goes into the belly and is cast out into the draught?
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But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart, and they defile the man.
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For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
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these are
the things which defile the man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man.
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Then Jesus left there and departed into the parts of Tyre and Sidon.
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And, behold, a woman of Canaan having come out of the same borders cried unto him, saying, Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me; my daughter is sick, possessed by a demon.