Matthew 15:16
And he said, Are you, like them, still without wisdom?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?
In Context
15Then Peter said to him, Make the story clear to us.
17Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth goes on into the stomach, and is sent out as waste?
Cross References
Isaiah 28:9To whom will he give knowledge? and to whom will he make clear the word? Will it be to those who have newly given up milk, and who have only now been taken from the breast?
Matthew 15:10And he got the people together and said to them, Give ear, and let my words be clear to you:
Matthew 16:11How is it that you do not see that I was not talking to you about bread, but about keeping away from the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?
Mark 7:18And he said to them, Have even you so little wisdom? Do you not see that whatever goes into a man from outside is not able to make him unclean,
Mark 9:32But the saying was not clear to them, and they were in fear of questioning him about it.
Luke 18:34But they did not take in the sense of any of these words, and what he said was not clear to them, and their minds were not able to see it.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 15:11-21
What Defileth a Man. 10 And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand: 11 Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man. 12 Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying? 13 But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up. 14 Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead… Read the whole commentary →