“Do you still not understand?” Jesus asked.
Christ turns from the proud Pharisees, who thought themselves too good to hear Him, and welcomes the multitude instead. The humble, though weak, are teachable; the proud are willfully blind. He teaches the common people what the learned men despise.
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Commenting on Matthew 15:10-20
And Jesus said,.... As wondering at, and as being displeased with, and as reproving them for their dulness and ignorance: are ye also yet without understanding? you, my disciples, as well as the Scribes and Pharisees; you, who have been with me so long, who have heard so many discourses from me, who for so long a time have been instructed by me, both in...
Verse 16. Are ye also yet without understanding? He appeals, in explaining this, to their common sense; and he wonders that they had not yet learned to judge the foolish traditions of the Jews by the decisions of common sense, and by his own instructions.