Matthew Chapter 15 verse 12 Holy Bible
Then came the disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, when they heard this saying?
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Then the disciples came and said to him, Did you see that the Pharisees were troubled when these words came to their ears?
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Then his disciples, coming up, said to him, Dost thou know that the Pharisees, having heard this word, have been offended?
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Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying?
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Then the disciples came, and said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees were offended, when they heard this saying?"
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Then his disciples having come near, said to him, `Hast thou known that the Pharisees, having heard the word, were stumbled?'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 12. - Then came his disciples. Jesus had been speaking in some open spot; he now leaves the crowd, and, entering a house with his disciples, instructs them further in private (Mark 7:17). These had been greatly alarmed at their Master's antagonism to the popular party, and, on the first occasion that presented itself, expostulated with him on the danger incurred by this hostile attitude. This saying (τὸν λόγον); the word. What he had said to the multitude (ver. 11). The Pharisees had cared less for the denunciation addressed to themselves (vers. 3-9), but when he interfered with their doctrinal supremacy over the people, they were offended, they took exception to p the teaching, believing that they detected therein an insidious attack on the Law. In their view, spiritualization of any of its enactments was equivalent to its subversion. But, as St. Gregory observes, "If offence arises from the statement of the truth, it is more expedient that offence be permitted to arise than that the truth should be abandoned" ('Hom. 7. in Ezek.').
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(12) Then came his disciples.--The sequence of events appears in Mark 7:17. The Pharisees drew back as in holy horror at the boldness with which the new Teacher set Himself, not only above their traditions, but above laws which they looked on as divine, and therefore permanent. The multitude heard in silence a teaching so unlike that with which they had been familiar from their youth. Even the disciples were half perplexed at the teaching itself, half afraid of what might be its immediate consequences. They came with their question, "Knowest thou not that the Pharisees were offended?" Had their Master calculated the consequences of thus attacking, not individual members or individual traditions of the party, but its fundamental principle, that which was, so to speak, its very raison d'etre?
