They were withdrawn while Christ discoursed with the scribes and Pharisees probably those proud men ordered them to withdraw, as not willing to talk with Christ in their hearing Christ must favour them at their pleasure with a discourse in private. The solemn introduction to this discourse ( ) He called the multitude. In the former part of his discourse he overturned the authority of the law, and in this the reason of it. 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. 19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: 20 These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man. 16 And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding? 17 Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught? 18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart and they defile the man.

15 Then answered Peter and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. 14 Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. 12 Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying? 13 But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up. 10 And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand: 11 Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man. Mat 15:17 | MHC | STEP | What Defileth a Man.

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