Mark 7:17 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

And when He had gone into the house away from the crowd His disciples asked Him about this parable.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And when He had left the crowd and had gone into the house, His disciples began asking Him about the parable.

American Standard Version (1901)

And when he was entered into the house from the multitude, his disciples asked of him the parable.

Common English Bible

After leaving the crowd, he entered a house where his disciples asked him about that riddle.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And when he had entered into the house, away from the crowd, his disciples questioned him about the parable.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And when he was come into the house from the multitude, his disciples asked him the parable.

Mark 7:17 Cross References

Matthew 13:10

Jesus’ disciples came and said to Him, “why are you speaking to them [i.e., the large crowds] by using parables?”

Matthew 13:36

He then left the crowds and went into the house. [While there] His disciples came to Him, and said, “Explain to us [the meaning of] the parable of the weeds in the field.”

Matthew 15:15

And Peter said to Him, “Explain the parable to us.”

Mark 2:1

After Jesus returned to Capernaum several days later, it became known that He was [back] at home [i.e., possibly at the house of Peter and Andrew, where He was staying. See 1:29].

Mark 3:20

Soon a crowd assembled again so that they could not even eat a meal [i.e., without people crowding all around them].

Mark 4:10

And when He was alone those people who gathered around Him, along with the twelve apostles, asked Him what the parables meant.

Mark 4:34

And He did not speak to them [i.e., concerning the kingdom] without using a parable, but He explained everything to His own disciples privately.

Mark 7:16

{This verse is absent from most ancient manuscripts}.

Mark 7:18

He said to them, ‘Are you also as lacking in understanding [as the others]? Do you not understand that whatever enters a person’s body from the outside cannot [spiritually] corrupt him?

Mark 9:28

And when Jesus had come into a house, His disciples asked Him privately, “Why could we not drive out the evil spirit [from that boy]?”