Are ye so without understanding also? (Hουτως κα υμεις ασυνετο εστε; ). See on Mt 15:16. You also as well as the multitude. It was…

Cannot defile him. Cannot render his soul polluted; cannot make him a sinner, so as to need this purifying as a reli…

Pseudo-Chrysostom: The Jews focus on and complain about only the bodily purification of the law; our Lord wishes to int…

After leaving the crowd, Jesus entered a house and was teaching the disciples privately (cf. 9:28, 33; 10:10). Although the disciples had already s…

And he saith unto them
With some warmth of spirit and resentment, at their stupidity:

Our wicked thoughts and affections, words and actions, defile us, and these only. As a corrupt fountain sends forth corrupt streams, so does a corr…