马太福音 15:12

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

門徒前來告訴他：“法利賽人聽了這話很生氣，你知道嗎？”

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
当 时 ， 门 徒 进 前 来 对 他 说 ： 法 利 赛 人 听 见 这 话 ， 不 服 （ 原 文 是 跌 倒 ） ， 你 知 道 麽 ？

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ After Jesus called the crowd to him, he said, "Listen and understand what I am saying. ¹¹ It is not what people put into their mouths that makes them unclean. It is what comes out of their mouths that makes them unclean." ¹² Then his followers came to him and asked, "Do you know that the Pharisees are angry because of what you said?" ¹³ Jesus answered, "Every plant that my Father in heaven has not planted himself will be pulled up by the roots. ¹⁴ Stay away from the Pharisees; they are blind leaders. And if a blind person leads a blind person, both will fall into a ditch." ¹⁵ Peter said, "Explain the example to us." ¹⁶ Jesus said, "Do you still not understand? ¹⁷ Surely you know that all the food that enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then goes out of the body. ¹⁸ But what people say with their mouths comes from the way they think; these are the things that make people unclean. ¹⁹ Out of the mind come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual sins, stealing, lying, and speaking evil of others.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Knowest: Matthew 17:27, 1 Kings 22:13, 1 Kings 22:14, 1 Corinthians 10:32, 1 Corinthians 10:33, 2 Corinthians 6:3, Galatians 2:5, James 3:17

Reciprocal: Proverbs 29:25 - fear Matthew 3:7 - the Pharisees Matthew 11:6 - whosoever Matthew 24:3 - the disciples Mark 10:2 - the Pharisees Luke 14:21 - and showed John 9:40 - Are

Cross-References

Genesis 2:21
So the Lord God caused the man to sleep very deeply, and while he was asleep, God removed one of the man's ribs. Then God closed up the man's skin at the place where he took the rib.

Genesis 15:3
Abram said, "Look, you have given me no son, so a slave born in my house will inherit everything I have."

Genesis 15:5
Then God led Abram outside and said, "Look at the sky. There are so many stars you cannot count them. Your descendants also will be too many to count."

Genesis 15:8
But Abram said, "Lord God , how can I be sure that I will own this land?"

Genesis 15:9
The Lord said to Abram, "Bring me a three-year-old cow, a three-year-old goat, a three-year-old male sheep, a dove, and a young pigeon."

Genesis 15:13
Then the Lord said to Abram, "You can be sure that your descendants will be strangers and travel in a land they don't own. The people there will make them slaves and be cruel to them for four hundred years.

Genesis 15:14
But I will punish the nation where they are slaves. Then your descendants will leave that land, taking great wealth with them.

1 Samuel 26:12
So David took the spear and water jug that were near Saul's head, and they left. No one saw them or knew about it or woke up, because the Lord had put them sound asleep.

Job 33:15
He speaks in a dream or a vision of the night when people are in a deep sleep, lying on their beds.

Acts 20:9
A young man named Eutychus was sitting in the window. As Paul continued talking, Eutychus was falling into a deep sleep. Finally, he went sound asleep and fell to the ground from the third floor. When they picked him up, he was dead.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then came his disciples, and said unto him,.... That is, after he had dismissed the people, and was come into a private house; see Mark 7:17 his disciples came to him, being alone, full of concern, for what he had said to the Pharisees, and before all the people; and not so well understanding it themselves.

Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended after they heard this saying?, that they set aside the commandments of God, by observing the traditions of the elders; or that they were hypocrites; and that the prophecy of Isaiah, which describes such persons, belonging to them; or that not what goes into, but what comes out of a man, defiles him: whichever it was they have respect unto, or it may be to the whole, they seem to wish Christ had not said it; because the Pharisees were, as they thought, grieved and troubled at it, as being contrary to true religion and piety; and lest they should be so stumbled, as no more to attend, and so all hopes of bringing them over to the faith of Christ be lost; and chiefly, because they perceived they were made exceeding angry, and were highly provoked; so that they might fear that both Christ, and they themselves, would feel the effects of their wrath and rage; and perhaps it was with some such view, that he would take some prudential step that he might not fall into their hands, that they acquaint him with it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See also Mark 7:15-17.

And he called the multitude - In opposition to the doctrines of the Pharisees, the Saviour took occasion to show them that the great source of pollution was the heart. They supposed that external things chiefly defiled a man. On this all their doctrines about purification were founded. This opinion of the Jews it was of great importance to correct. The Saviour took occasion, therefore, to direct the people to the true source of defilement - their own hearts. He particularly directed them to it as of importance - “Hear and understand.”

Matthew 15:11

Not that which goeth into the mouth ... - The disciples were charged with being sinners for transgressing the tradition of the elders in eating with unwashed hands.

Christ replies that what they should eat could not render them sinners. The man, the moral agent, the soul, could not be polluted by anything that was eaten. What proceeds from the man himself, from his heart, would defile him.

Defileth - Pollutes, corrupts, or renders sinful.

Matthew 15:12

The Pharisees were offended - They were so zealous of their traditions that they could not endure that their absurdities should be exposed.

Matthew 15:13

Every plant ... - Religious doctrine is not inaptly compared to a plant. See 1 Corinthians 3:6-8. It is planted in the mind for the purpose of producing fruit in the life, or right conduct. Jesus here says that all those doctrines of which his Father was not the author must be rooted up or corrected. The false doctrines of the Pharisees, therefore, must be attacked, and it was no wonder if they were indignant. It could not be helped. It was his duty to attack them. He was not surprised that they were enraged; but, notwithstanding their opposition, their doctrine should be destroyed.

Matthew 15:14

Let them alone - That is, do not be troubled at their rage.

Be not anxious about it. This result is to be expected. They are greatly attached to their traditions, and you are not to wonder that they are indignant. They lead, also, the blind. They have a vast influence over the multitude, and it is to be expected that they will be enraged at any doctrines that go to lessen their authority or influence. By commanding them “to let them alone,” Christ does not mean that they were to be suffered to remain in error without any attempt to refute or correct them, for this he was doing then; but he meant to charge his disciples not to mind them or to regard their opposition - it was to be expected.

If the blind lead the blind ... - This was a plain proposition. A blind man, attempting to conduct blind men, would fall into every ditch that was in the way. So with religious teachers. If these Pharisees, themselves ignorant and blind, should be suffered to lead the ignorant multitude, both would be destroyed. This was another reason for confuting their errors, or for rooting up the plants which God had not planted. He wished, by doing it, to save the deluded multitude.

God often suffers one man to lead many to ruin. A rich and profligate man, an infidel, a man of learning, a politician, or a teacher, is allowed to sweep multitudes to ruin. This is not unjust, for those who are led are not compelled to follow such people. They are free in choosing such leaders, and they are answerable for being led to ruin.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Matthew 15:12. The Pharisees were offended — None so liable to take offence as formalists and hypocrites, when you attempt to take away the false props from the one, and question the sincerity of the other. Besides, a Pharisee must never be suspected of ignorance, for they are the men, and wisdom must die with them!