These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
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Gill's Exposition
These are the things which defile a man,.... These are filthy in themselves, and must pollute all in whom they are; they bring a defilement on the whole man, both body and soul, fasten guilt upon him,…
See also Mar 7:17-23. Then answered Peter, and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable - See the notes at Mat 13:3. The word “parable” sometimes means a dark or obscure saying, Psa 78:2. Peter…
Christ having proved that the disciples, in eating with unwashen hands, were not to be blamed, as transgressing the traditions and injunctions of the elders, comes here to show that they were not to…
Mat 15:1-20. The True Religion and the False. A Discourse to the Pharisees, the People, and the Disciples
Mar 7:1-23
These twenty verses sum up the great controversy of the N. T., that between the…
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