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.

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]?”