2And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.
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And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean.
I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? …
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. …
But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean. …
Commentary
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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