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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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Albert Barnes
On Mark 7:17
18th Century
Theologian
The parable. The obscure and difficult remarks that He had made in Mark 7:15. The word parable, here, means an obscu…
AT Robertson
On Mark 7:17
When he was entered into the house from the multitude (οτε εισηλθεν εις οικον απο του οχλου). This detail in Mark alone, probably …
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Mark 7:17
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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John Gill
On Mark 7:17
17th Century
Pastor
And when he was entered into the house
Very probably at Capernaum, and it may be the house of Simon and Andrew, wher…
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…