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A Question of Originality
Scholars, like Charles Ellicott, point out that this verse is missing from many of the oldest and most reliable manuscripts of the Gospel of Mark. It may have been a marginal note added by an early scribe to emphasize the importance of Jesus' teaching in the previous verse. This is why many modern Bible translations either omit verse 16 or place it in brackets.
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Charles Ellicott
On Mark 7:16
19th Century
Bishop
If any man have ears to hear.—It was with this formula that our Lord had closed some at least of His parables ([Reference…
John Gill
On Mark 7:16
17th Century
Pastor
If any man have ears to hear, let him hear .
] (See Gill on Matthew 11:15).
Matthew Henry
On Mark 7:14–23
17th Century
Minister
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…