<t /><p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> they went to Capernaum.<n id="2" /> When the Sabbath came,<n id="3" /> Jesus<n id="4" /> went into the synagogue<n id="5" /> and began to teach.

but<n id="1" /> worldly cares, the seductiveness of wealth,<n id="2" /> and the desire for other things come in and choke the word,<n id="3" /> and it produces nothing.

He said to them, &#8220;Are you so foolish? Don&#8217;t you understand that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him?

For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then goes out into the sewer.&#8221;<n id="1" /> (This means all foods are clean.)<n id="2" />

And they began making fun of him.<n id="1" /> But he put them all outside<n id="2" /> and he took the child&#8217;s father and mother and his own companions<n id="3" /> and went into the room where the child was.<n id="4" />

There is nothing outside of a person that can defile him by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles him.&#8221;p>

and said to them, &#8220;Go to the village ahead of you.<n id="1" /> As soon as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there that has never been ridden.<n id="2" /> Untie it and bring it here.

And wherever he would go &#8211; into villages, towns, or countryside &#8211; they would place the sick in the marketplaces, and would ask him if<n id="1" /> they could just touch the edge of his cloak, and all who touched it were healed.p>