Mark 7:17

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When he had left the people and gone home, his disciples asked him about this illustration.

Cross References

Matthew 13:10

The disciples asked him, “Why do you use stories as illustrations when you speak to people?”

Matthew 13:36

When Jesus had sent the people away, he went into the house. His disciples came to him and said, “Explain what the illustration of the weeds in the field means.”

Matthew 15:15

Peter said to him, “Explain this illustration to us.”

Mark 2:1

Several days later Jesus came back to Capernaum. The report went out that he was home.

Mark 3:20

Then Jesus went home. Another crowd gathered so that Jesus and his disciples could not even eat.

Mark 4:10

When he was alone with his followers and the twelve apostles, they asked him about the stories.

Mark 4:34

He did not speak to them without using an illustration. But when he was alone with his disciples, he explained everything to them.

Mark 7:16

Let the person who has ears listen!”

Mark 7:18

Jesus said to them, “Don’t you understand? Don’t you know that whatever goes into a person from the outside can’t make him unclean?

Mark 9:28

When Jesus went into a house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why couldn’t we force the spirit out of the boy?”