Mark 7:17

After He had left the crowd and gone indoors, His disciples began to ask Him about this figure of speech.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.

In Context

18"Have *you* also so little understanding?" He replied; "do you not understand that anything whatever that enters a man from outside cannot make him unclean,

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Cross References

Matthew 13:36When He had dismissed the people and had returned to the house, His disciples came to Him with the request, "Explain to us the parable of the darnel sown in the field."

Mark 4:10When He was alone, the Twelve and the others who were about Him requested Him to explain His figurative language.

Mark 9:28After the return of Jesus to the house His disciples asked Him privately, "How is it that we could not expel the spirit?"

Matthew Henry on Mark 7:2-24

The Traditions of the Elders; The Worst Defilement from Within. 1 Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem. 2 And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault. 3 For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders. 4 And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they… Read the whole commentary →

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