16And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?
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Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
But they understood not that saying, and were afraid to ask him.
And 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;
But they understood not this saying, and it was hid from them, that they perceived it not: and they feared to ask him of that saying.
And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand:
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-20)Christ having proved that the disciples, in eating with unwashen hands, were not to be blamed, as transgressing the traditions and injunctions of the elders, comes here to show that they were not to be blamed, as having done any thing that was in itself evil. In the former part of his discourse he overturned the authority of the law, and in this the reason of it. Observe, I. The solemn introductio…
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