Matthew 15:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.

Matthew 15:20 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Mark 7:3-4
For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders. …
Revelation 21:27
And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.
Luke 11:38-40
And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner. …
1 Corinthians 6:18-20
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. …
Matthew 23:25-26
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. …

Topics

Bowels Church Commandments Creed Depravity of Man Discipleship Disobedience to God Duty

Commentary

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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 20)

20. These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man--Thus does our Lord sum up this whole searching discourse. For the exposition, see on Mr 7:24-30.