Matthew 15:16

Matthew 15:16

14 Let them alone. ^aThey are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a ditch.”

15 ^aThen Peter answered and said to Him, “Explain this parable to us.”

16 So Jesus said, ^a“Are you also still without understanding?

17 Do you not yet understand that ^awhatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated?

18 But ^athose things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man.

19 ^aFor 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 unwashed hands does not defile a man.”

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Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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Are ye also even yet without understanding? (Akmhn kai umeiv asunetoi este). Akmhn is an adverbial accusative (classic aixmh, point (of a weapon)=akmhn xronou at this point of time, just now=eti. It occurs in papyri and inscriptions, though condemned by the old grammarians. "In spite of all my teaching, are ye also like the Pharisees without spiritual insight and grasp?" One must never forget that the disciples lived in a Pharisaic environment. Their religious world-outlook was Pharisaic. They were lacking in spiritual intelligence or sense, "totally ignorant" (Moffatt).

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