18And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;
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And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding? …
Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.
How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?
Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:
Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-23)One great design of Christ’s coming, was, to set aside the ceremonial law which God made, and to put an end to it; to make way for which he begins with the ceremonial law which men had made, and added to the law of God’s making, and discharges his disciples from the obligation of that; which here he doth fully, upon occasion of the offence which the Pharisees took at them for the violation of it.…
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