Cross References

Mark 7:17

New English Translation

Now when Jesus had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about the parable.

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Then the disciples came to him and said, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”

Then he left the crowds and went into the house. And his disciples came to him saying, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field.”

But Peter said to him, “Explain this parable to us.”

Now after some days, when he returned to Capernaum, the news spread that he was at home.

Now Jesus went home, and a crowd gathered so that they were not able to eat.

When he was alone, those around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.

He did not speak to them without a parable. But privately he explained everything to his own disciples.

He said to them, “Are you so foolish? Don’t you understand that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him?

Then, after he went into the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why couldn’t we cast it out?”