Then<n id="1" /> he began to teach<n id="2" /> them by saying:p>

Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say anything good, since you are evil? For the mouth speaks from what fills the heart.

This fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet:<n id="1" />p> <p class="otpoetry">&#8220;<b><i>I will open my mouth in parables,i>b>p> <p class="otpoetry"><i><b>I will announce what has been hidden from the foundation of the worldb>.i>&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

What defiles a person is not what goes into the mouth; it is what<n id="1" /> comes out of the mouth that defiles a person.&#8221;

Don&#8217;t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach and then passes out into the sewer?<n id="1" />

But so that we don&#8217;t offend them, go to the lake and throw out a hook. Take the first fish that comes up, and when you open its mouth, you will find a four drachma coin.<n id="1" /> Take that and give it to them for me and you.&#8221;p>