Matthew 15:10

The Passion Translation

Then Jesus turned to the crowd and said, “Come, listen and open your heart to understand.

Cross References

Colossians 1:9

Since we first heard about you, we’ve kept you always in our prayers that you would receive the perfect knowledge of God’s pleasure over your lives, making you reservoirs of every kind of wisdom and spiritual understanding.

Luke 24:45

He supernaturally unlocked their understanding to receive the revelation of the Scriptures,

Ephesians 1:17

I pray that the Father of glory, the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, would impart to you the riches of the Spirit of wisdom and the Spirit of revelation to know him through your deepening intimacy with him.

Matthew 24:15

“When you witness what Daniel prophesied, ‘the disgusting destroyer,’ taking its stand in the Holy Place [let the reader learn],

Matthew 13:19

“What was sown along the path represents the one who listens to the message of the kingdom but doesn’t understand it. The Adversary then comes and snatches away what was sown into his heart.

Isaiah 55:3

Pay attention and come closer to me, and hear, that your total being may flourish. I will enter into an everlasting covenant with you, and I will show you the same faithful love that I showed David.

Isaiah 6:9

Then he said, “Go and tell the people: ‘You keep listening but understand nothing. You keep watching but learn nothing.’

James 1:5

And if anyone longs to be wise, ask God for wisdom and he will give it! He won’t see your lack of wisdom as an opportunity to scold you over your failures but he will overwhelm your failures with his generous grace.

Matthew 15:9

They pretend to worship me, but their worship is nothing more than the empty traditions of men.”

Matthew 15:11

What truly contaminates a person is not what he puts into his mouth but what comes out of his mouth. That’s what makes people defiled.”