Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem.
And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.
For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.
oft. or, diligently. Gr. With the fist. Up to the elbow. Theophylact. [Pugme,] the fist; which Dr. Lightfoot illustrates by a tradition from the Talmudical tracts, that when they washed their hands, they washed the fist up to the joint of the arm, [ad perek.] The Jews laid great stress on these washings, or baptisms, [baptismos,] considering eating with unwashen hands no ordinary crime, and feigning that an evil spirit, called Shibta, has a right to sit on the food of him who thus eats, and render it hurtful.
the tradition.
Mark 7:7-10,13 However, in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments …
Matthew 15:2-6 Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for …
Galatians 1:14 And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in my own …
Colossians 2:8,21-23 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, …
1 Peter 1:18 For as much as you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible …
And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.
except.
Job 9:30,31 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean…
Psalm 26:6 I will wash my hands in innocence: so will I compass your altar, O LORD:
Isaiah 1:16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before …
Jeremiah 4:14 O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. …
Matthew 27:24 When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a …
Luke 11:38,39 And when the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first washed …
John 2:6 And there were set there six water pots of stone, after the manner …
John 3:25 Then there arose a question between some of John's disciples and …
Hebrews 9:10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal …
James 4:8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, …
1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship …
pots. `Gr. Sextarius; about a pint and a half.'
tables. or, beds.
Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?
He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
Well.
Isaiah 29:13 Why the Lord said, For as much as this people draw near me with their …
Matthew 15:7-9 You hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying…
Acts 28:25 And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that …
hypocrites.
Matthew 23:13-15 But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you shut up …
Luke 11:39-44 And the Lord said to him, Now do you Pharisees make clean the outside …
honoureth.
Ezekiel 33:31 And they come to you as the people comes, and they sit before you …
Hosea 8:2,3 Israel shall cry to me, My God, we know you…
John 5:42 But I know you, that you have not the love of God in you.
John 8:41,42,54,55 You do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not …
John 15:24 If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, …
2 Timothy 3:5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
Titus 1:16 They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being …
James 2:14-17 What does it profit, my brothers, though a man say he has faith, …
Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
in vain.
1 Samuel 12:21 And turn you not aside: for then should you go after vain things, …
Malachi 3:14 You have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that …
Matthew 6:7 But when you pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for …
Matthew 15:9 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
1 Corinthians 15:14,58 And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your …
Titus 3:9 But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and …
James 1:26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridles not his tongue, …
James 2:20 But will you know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
the commandments.
Deuteronomy 12:32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: you shall not …
Colossians 2:22 Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments …
1 Timothy 4:1-3 Now the Spirit speaks expressly, that in the latter times some shall …
Revelation 14:11,12 And the smoke of their torment ascends up for ever and ever: and …
Revelation 22:18 For I testify to every man that hears the words of the prophecy of …
For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.
And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
Full.
2 Kings 16:10-16 And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, …
Isaiah 24:5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because …
Isaiah 29:13 Why the Lord said, For as much as this people draw near me with their …
Jeremiah 44:16,17 As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, …
Daniel 7:25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear …
Daniel 11:36 And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, …
Matthew 15:3-6 But he answered and said to them, Why do you also transgress the …
2 Thessalonians 2:4 Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that …
reject. or, frustrate.
Mark 7:13 Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which …
Psalm 119:126 It is time for you, LORD, to work: for they have made void your law.
Romans 3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yes, we establish …
Galatians 2:21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by …
For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
Honour.
Mark 10:19 You know the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do …
Exodus 20:12 Honor your father and your mother: that your days may be long on …
Deuteronomy 5:16 Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded …
Whoso.
Exodus 21:17 And he that curses his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
Leviticus 20:9 For every one that curses his father or his mother shall be surely …
Deuteronomy 27:16 Cursed be he that sets light by his father or his mother. And all …
Proverbs 20:20 Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out …
Proverbs 30:17 The eye that mocks at his father, and despises to obey his mother, …
Matthew 15:4 For God commanded, saying, Honor your father and mother: and, He …
But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.
And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;
Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
the word.
Mark 7:9 And he said to them, Full well you reject the commandment of God, …
Isaiah 8:20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this …
Jeremiah 8:8,9 How do you say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? …
Hosea 8:12 I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted …
Matthew 5:17-20 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am …
Matthew 15:6 And honor not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have …
Titus 1:14 Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn …
such.
Ezekiel 18:14 Now, see, if he beget a son, that sees all his father's sins which …
Galatians 5:21 Contentions, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like: of the …
And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand:
when.
1 Kings 18:21 And Elijah came to all the people, and said, How long halt you between …
1 Kings 22:28 And Micaiah said, If you return at all in peace, the LORD has not …
Psalm 49:1,2 Hear this, all you people; give ear, all you inhabitants of the world…
Psalm 94:8 Understand, you brutish among the people: and you fools, when will you be wise?
Matthew 15:10 And he called the multitude, and said to them, Hear, and understand:
Luke 12:1,54-57 In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable …
Luke 20:45-47 Then in the audience of all the people he said to his disciples…
and understand.
Proverbs 8:5 O you simple, understand wisdom: and, you fools, be you of an understanding …
Isaiah 6:9 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear you indeed, but understand …
Acts 8:30 And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, …
There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.
There. Though it is very true, says Dr. Doddridge, that a man may bring guilt upon himself by eating to excess, and a Jew, by eating what was forbidden by the Mosaic law; yet still the pollution would arise from the wickedness of the heart, and be just proportionable to it, which is all our Lord asserts.
nothing.
Mark 7:18-20 And he said to them, Are you so without understanding also? Do you …
Leviticus 11:42-47 Whatever goes on the belly, and whatever goes on all four, or whatever …
Acts 10:14-16,28 But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that …
Acts 11:8-10 But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean has at any …
Acts 15:20,21 But that we write to them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, …
Romans 14:17 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, …
1 Corinthians 10:25 Whatever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for …
1 Timothy 4:3-5 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats…
Titus 1:15 To the pure all things are pure: but to them that are defiled and …
Hebrews 9:10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal …
Hebrews 13:9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is …
but.
Mark 7:20-23 And he said, That which comes out of the man, that defiles the man…
Proverbs 4:23 Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
Matthew 12:34 O generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? …
Matthew 15:16 And Jesus said, Are you also yet without understanding?
If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
Mark 4:9,23 And he said to them, He that has ears to hear, let him hear…
Matthew 11:15 He that has ears to hear, let him hear.
Revelation 2:7,11,17,29 He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit said to the churches; …
Revelation 3:6,13,22 He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit said to the churches…
And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.
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;
Mark 4:13 And he said to them, Know you not this parable? and how then will …
Isaiah 28:9,10 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand …
Jeremiah 5:4,5 Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they …
Matthew 15:16,17 And Jesus said, Are you also yet without understanding…
Matthew 16:11 How is it that you do not understand that I spoke it not to you concerning …
Luke 24:25 Then he said to them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that …
John 3:10 Jesus answered and said to him, Are you a master of Israel, and know …
1 Corinthians 3:2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for till now you were …
Hebrews 5:11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing …
Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
Mark 7:15 There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile …
Psalm 41:6 And if he come to see me, he speaks vanity: his heart gathers iniquity …
Hebrews 7:6 But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of …
Micah 2:1 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil on their beds! when …
Matthew 12:34-37 O generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? …
James 1:14,15 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed…
James 3:6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among …
James 4:1 From where come wars and fights among you? come they not hence, even …
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
out.
Genesis 6:5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth…
Genesis 8:21 And the LORD smelled a sweet smell; and the LORD said in his heart, …
Job 14:4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
Job 15:14-16 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, …
Job 25:4 How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that …
Psalm 14:1,3 The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, …
Psalm 53:1,3 The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, …
Psalm 58:2,3 Yes, in heart you work wickedness; you weigh the violence of your …
Proverbs 4:23 Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
Jeremiah 4:14 O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. …
Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: …
Matthew 15:19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, …
Matthew 23:25-28 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you make clean …
Luke 16:15 And he said to them, You are they which justify yourselves before …
Acts 5:4 Whiles it remained, was it not your own? and after it was sold, was …
Acts 8:22 Repent therefore of this your wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps …
Romans 7:5,8 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by …
Romans 8:7,8 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject …
Galatians 5:19-21 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, …
Titus 3:3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, …
James 1:14,15 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed…
James 4:1-3 From where come wars and fights among you? come they not hence, even …
1 Peter 4:2,3 That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to …
evil.
Proverbs 15:25 The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish …
Isaiah 59:7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: …
Ezekiel 38:10 Thus said the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same …
Matthew 9:4 And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Why think you evil in your hearts?
James 2:4 Are you not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?
Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
covetousness, wickedness. Gr. covetousnesses, wickednesses. an evil.
Deuteronomy 15:9 Beware that there be not a thought in your wicked heart, saying, …
Deuteronomy 28:54,56 So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his …
1 Samuel 18:8,9 And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, …
Proverbs 23:6 Eat you not the bread of him that has an evil eye, neither desire …
Proverbs 28:22 He that hastens to be rich has an evil eye, and considers not that …
Matthew 20:15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with my own? Is your eye …
pride.
2 Chronicles 32:25,26,31 But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done to …
Psalm 10:4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after …
Obadiah 1:3,4 The pride of your heart has deceived you, you that dwell in the clefts …
2 Corinthians 10:5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself …
1 Peter 5:5 Likewise, you younger, submit yourselves to the elder. Yes, all of …
foolishness.
Proverbs 12:23 A prudent man conceals knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaims foolishness.
Proverbs 22:15 Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction …
Proverbs 24:9 The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.
Proverbs 27:22 Though you should bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, …
Ecclesiastes 7:25 I applied my heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, …
1 Peter 2:15 For so is the will of God, that with well doing you may put to silence …
All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know it: but he could not be hid.
from.
Matthew 15:21 Then Jesus went there, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.
Tyre.
Mark 3:8 And from Jerusalem, and from Idumaea, and from beyond Jordan; and …
Genesis 10:15,19 And Canaan begat Sidon his first born, and Heth…
Genesis 49:13 Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for …
Joshua 19:28,29 And Hebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, even to great Zidon…
Isaiah 23:1-4,12 The burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, …
Ezekiel 28:2,21,22 Son of man, say to the prince of Tyrus, Thus said the Lord GOD; Because …
and would.
Mark 2:1 And again he entered into Capernaum after some days; and it was noised …
Mark 3:7 But Jesus withdrew himself with his disciples to the sea: and a great …
Mark 6:31,32 And he said to them, Come you yourselves apart into a desert place, …
Isaiah 42:2 He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.
Matthew 9:28 And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and …
1 Timothy 5:25 Likewise also the good works of some are manifest beforehand; and …
For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet:
a.
Matthew 15:22 And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried …
whose.
Mark 9:17-23 And one of the multitude answered and said, Master, I have brought …
at.
Mark 1:40 And there came a leper to him, beseeching him, and kneeling down …
Mark 5:22,23,33 And, behold, there comes one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus …
Luke 17:16 And fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he …
Acts 10:25,26 And as Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him, and fell down at his …
Revelation 22:8,9 And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen…
The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.
Greek. or, Gentile.
Isaiah 49:12 Behold, these shall come from far: and, see, these from the north …
Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there …
Colossians 3:11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, …
a Syrophenician.
Matthew 15:22 And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried …
But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs.
And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.
yet.
Psalm 145:16 You open your hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing.
Isaiah 45:22 Look to me, and be you saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am …
Isaiah 49:6 And he said, It is a light thing that you should be my servant to …
Matthew 5:45 That you may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for …
Luke 7:6-8 Then Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far from the house, …
Luke 15:30-32 But as soon as this your son was come, which has devoured your living …
Acts 11:17,18 For as much then as God gave them the like gift as he did to us, …
Romans 3:29 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, …
Romans 10:12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the …
Romans 15:8,9 Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for …
Ephesians 2:12-14 That at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the …
Ephesians 3:8 To me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given…
And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter.
And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.
And again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he came unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis.
And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him.
And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue;
he took.
Mark 5:40 And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all out, …
Mark 8:23 And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; …
1 Kings 17:19-22 And he said to her, Give me your son. And he took him out of her …
2 Kings 4:4-6,33,34 And when you are come in, you shall shut the door on you and on your …
John 9:6,7 When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of …
put. This was clearly a symbolical action; for these remedies evidently could not, by their natural efficacy, avail to produce so wonderful an effect. As the ears of the deaf appear closed, he applies his fingers to intimate that he would open them; and as the tongue of the dumb seems to be tied, or to cleave to the palate, he touches it, to intimate he would give loose and free motion to it. He accommodated himself to the weakness of those who might not indeed doubt his power, but fancy some external sign was requisite to healing. It was also thus made manifest, that this salutiferous power came from Himself, and that He who by one word, [ephphatha,] had healed the man, must be Divine.
And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.
looking.
Mark 6:41 And when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked …
John 11:41 Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. …
John 17:1 These words spoke Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, …
he sighed.
Mark 8:12 And he sighed deeply in his spirit, and said, Why does this generation …
Isaiah 53:3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted …
Ezekiel 21:6,7 Sigh therefore, you son of man, with the breaking of your loins; …
Luke 19:41 And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
John 11:33,35,38 When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which …
Hebrews 4:15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling …
Ephphatha.
Mark 5:41 And he took the damsel by the hand, and said to her, Talitha cumi; …
Mark 15:34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, …
Be opened.
Mark 1:41 And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand, and touched …
Luke 7:14 And he came and touched the bier: and they that bore him stood still. …
Luke 18:42 And Jesus said to him, Receive your sight: your faith has saved you.
John 11:43 And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.
Acts 9:34,40 And Peter said to him, Aeneas, Jesus Christ makes you whole: arise, …
And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.
Mark 2:12 And immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went forth before …
Psalm 33:9 For he spoke, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.
Isaiah 32:3,4 And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them …
Isaiah 35:5,6 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf …
Matthew 11:5 The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are …
And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it;
And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.
were.
Mark 1:27 And they were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, …
Mark 2:12 And immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went forth before …
Mark 4:41 And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, What manner …
Mark 5:42 And straightway the damsel arose, and walked; for she was of the …
Mark 6:51 And he went up to them into the ship; and the wind ceased: and they …
Psalm 139:14 I will praise you; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous …
Acts 2:7-12 And they were all amazed and marveled, saying one to another, Behold, …
Acts 3:10-13 And they knew that it was he which sat for alms at the Beautiful …
Acts 14:11 And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their …
He hath.
Genesis 1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very …
Luke 23:41 And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: …
he maketh.
Exodus 4:10,11 And Moses said to the LORD, O my LORD, I am not eloquent, neither …
