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When he had entered into the house from the multitude, his disciples asked him about the parable.
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Private Teaching for Disciples
Commentators highlight the change in setting from the multitude to a private house. This was a common pattern for Jesus, who often taught the crowds in parables and then offered deeper, more direct explanations to his inner circle of disciples when they were alone.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The parable. The obscure and difficult remarks that He had made in Mark 7:15. The word parable, here, means an obscu…
When he was entered into the house from the multitude (οτε εισηλθεν εις οικον απο του οχλου). This detail in Mark alone, probably …
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…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And when he was entered into the house Very probably at Capernaum, and it may be the house of Simon and Andrew, wher…
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…
