20These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
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For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders. …
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.
And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner. …
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. …
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. …
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…
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