Mark 7:15

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Mark 7:1-37

Mark 7:3 . The pharisees, and all the jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not. Their traditionary laws, which enjoined all possible corporeal purity, were built on the notion that a person might unconsciously have touched something unclean. They washed their hands as far as the wrist, literally the fist. It is some credit to revelation that those were laws of tradition, imposed as maxims of the wise. Yet we cannot deny, that they obtained in various forms through the whole of Shem’s... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Mark 7:1-16

Mark 7:1-16Then came together unto Him the Pharisees, and certain of the Scribes.Scribes and Pharisees coming to ChristI. When they came. When Gennesaret turned its heart toward Him. When diseased bodies had felt the virtue of His touch, and imprisoned souls had been set free by His word. Then. As soon as ever the Church’s Child was born, the devil sought to drown Him (Revelation 12:1-17).II. Who they were that came. Pharisees and scribes. The learned and the religious. These two classes have... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Mark 7:15

15 There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man. Ver. 15. See Trapp on " Mat 15:11 " read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Mark 7:15

There: Though it is very true, says Dr. Doddridge, that a man may bring guilt upon himself by eating to excess, and a Jew, by eating what was forbidden by the Mosaic law; yet still the pollution would arise from the wickedness of the heart, and be just proportionable to it, which is all our Lord asserts. nothing: Mark 7:18-Proverbs :, Leviticus 11:42-2 Corinthians :, Acts 10:14-Nehemiah :, Acts 10:28, Acts 11:8-2 Samuel :, Acts 15:20, Acts 15:21, Romans 14:17, 1 Corinthians 10:25, 1 Timothy... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Mark 7:15

There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.There is nothing entering into a man from without which can defile him — Though it is very true, a man may bring guilt, which is moral defilement, upon himself by eating what hurts his health, or by excess either in meat or drink yet even here the pollution arises from the wickedness of the heart, and is just proportionable to it. And this is all... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 7:1-23

§ 66. DEBATE WITH THE PHARISEES AND SCRIBES IN REGARD TO TRADITIONS, Mark 7:1-23 . (See notes on Matthew 15:1-20.) read more