Our uncleanness comes from within. When Jesus speaks to the Pharisees in response to them asking why He did not wash before eating as is the tradition of the Pharisees, he says that it is not the outside which needs cleaning but the inside, the evil within us comes from our hearts which need cleansing.

There are examples of physical situations which are founded in the culture of the time which have spiritual truths that we need to understand.

Even as Jesus spoke in similes so that only those who would seek Him and be enabled by the Holy Spirit to understand the teaching of God, so we also will not understand Scripture unless we have our eyes opened and our ears unstopped by a willingness and desire to know the truth that Jesus teaches.

We need to ask Jesus to explain the Word to us that we might see with our eyes and hear with ...