Mark 7:14 (BSB)
Once again Jesus called the crowd to Him and said, “All of you, listen to Me and understand:
Commentary on Mark 7:14
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Mark 7:1-23: One great design of Christ's coming, was, to set aside the ceremonial law which God made, and to put an end to it; to make way for which he begins with the ceremonial law which men had made, and added to the law of God's making, and discharges his disciples from the obligation of that; which here he doth fully, upon occasion of the offence...
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Mark 7:14: And when he, had called all the people unto him,.... The Vulgate Latin, and Ethiopic versions, instead of "all", read again, and so do some copies: having said what was sufficient to stop the mouths of the Scribes and Pharisees, about their unwarrantable traditions; he turns himself to the common people, who stood at some distance, because of these venerable doctors, and called to them...
- William Burkitt (Anglican), Expository Notes on the New Testament on Mark 7:14: Our blessed Saviour, leaving the Pharisees with some dislike, applies himself to the multitude, and instructs them in a very necessary and useful doctrine, touching the original cause of all spiritual pollution and uncleanness; namely, The filthiness and impurity of man's heart and nature.
- Adam Clarke (Methodist), Clarke's Commentary on the Bible on Mark 7:14: When he had called all the people - But instead of παντα, all, παλιν, again, is the reading of BDL, later Syriac in the margin, Coptic, Ethiopic, Saxon, Vulgate, all the Itala but one. Mill and Griesbach approve of this reading.