Mark 7:17

World English Bible (2000)

When he had entered into a house away from the multitude, his disciples asked him about the parable.

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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 15:15 : 15 Peter answered him, "Explain the parable to us."
  • Matt 13:36 : 36 Then Jesus sent the multitudes away, and went into the house. His disciples came to him, saying, "Explain to us the parable of the darnel weeds of the field."
  • Mark 9:28 : 28 When he had come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, "Why couldn't we cast it out?"
  • Matt 13:10 : 10 The disciples came, and said to him, "Why do you speak to them in parables?"
  • Mark 4:10 : 10 When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.
  • Mark 4:34 : 34 Without a parable he didn't speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.

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  • Mark 7:18-20
    3 verses
    82%

    18He said to them, "Are you thus without understanding also? Don't you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can't defile him,

    19because it doesn't go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, thus purifying all foods?"

    20He said, "That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man.

  • Mark 7:14-16
    3 verses
    80%

    14He called all the multitude to himself, and said to them, "Hear me, all of you, and understand.

    15There is nothing from outside of the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.

    16If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!"

  • Mark 4:10-11
    2 verses
    80%

    10When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.

    11He said to them, "To you is given the mystery of the Kingdom of God, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,

  • Luke 8:9
    79%

    9Then his disciples asked him, "What does this parable mean?"

  • Matt 13:10
    78%

    10The disciples came, and said to him, "Why do you speak to them in parables?"

  • Matt 13:36
    78%

    36Then Jesus sent the multitudes away, and went into the house. His disciples came to him, saying, "Explain to us the parable of the darnel weeds of the field."

  • Mark 10:10
    76%

    10In the house, his disciples asked him again about the same matter.

  • Luke 7:1
    75%

    1After he had finished speaking in the hearing of the people, he entered into Capernaum.

  • Matt 15:10-12
    3 verses
    75%

    10He summoned the multitude, and said to them, "Hear, and understand.

    11That which enters into the mouth doesn't defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man."

    12Then the disciples came, and said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees were offended, when they heard this saying?"

  • Matt 15:15-17
    3 verses
    75%

    15Peter answered him, "Explain the parable to us."

    16So Jesus said, "Do you also still not understand?

    17Don't you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly, and then out of the body?

  • Mark 9:33
    74%

    33He came to Capernaum, and when he was in the house he asked them, "What were you arguing among yourselves on the way?"

  • Mark 9:14
    74%

    14Coming to the disciples, he saw a great multitude around them, and scribes questioning them.

  • Mark 8:21
    74%

    21He asked them, "Don't you understand, yet?"

  • Mark 4:34
    73%

    34Without a parable he didn't speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.

  • Mark 9:28
    73%

    28When he had come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, "Why couldn't we cast it out?"

  • Mark 7:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1Then the Pharisees, and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem.

    2Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is, unwashed, hands, they found fault.

  • Mark 4:13
    73%

    13He said to them, "Don't you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?

  • Mark 7:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    4They don't eat when they come from the marketplace, unless they bathe themselves, and there are many other things, which they have received to hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches.)

    5The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why don't your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?"

  • Luke 7:18
    72%

    18The disciples of John told him about all these things.

  • Mark 6:1
    72%

    1He went out from there. He came into his own country, and his disciples followed him.

  • Mark 2:1
    72%

    1When he entered again into Capernaum after some days, it was heard that he was in the house.

  • Mark 7:24
    72%

    24From there he arose, and went away into the borders of Tyre and Sidon. He entered into a house, and didn't want anyone to know it, but he couldn't escape notice.

  • Mark 4:2
    71%

    2He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching,

  • Mark 9:16
    71%

    16He asked the scribes, "What are you asking them?"

  • Mark 3:7
    71%

    7Jesus withdrew to the sea with his disciples, and a great multitude followed him from Galilee, from Judea,

  • Matt 13:34
    71%

    34Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn't speak to them,

  • Luke 17:7
    71%

    7But who is there among you, having a servant plowing or keeping sheep, that will say, when he comes in from the field, 'Come immediately and sit down at the table,'

  • Luke 14:7
    71%

    7He spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the best seats, and said to them,

  • Luke 8:4
    71%

    4When a great multitude came together, and people from every city were coming to him, he spoke by a parable.

  • Matt 7:27-28
    2 verses
    70%

    27The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell--and great was its fall."

    28It happened, when Jesus had finished saying these things, that the multitudes were astonished at his teaching,

  • Luke 20:45
    70%

    45In the hearing of all the people, he said to his disciples,

  • Mark 7:31
    70%

    31Again he departed from the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and came to the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the region of Decapolis.

  • Luke 14:1
    70%

    1It happened, when he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, that they were watching him.

  • Matt 23:1
    70%

    1Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples,

  • Matt 7:6
    70%

    6"Don't give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

  • Luke 12:41
    70%

    41Peter said to him, "Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everybody?"

  • Mark 8:4
    70%

    4His disciples answered him, "From where could one satisfy these people with bread here in a deserted place?"

  • Matt 15:2
    70%

    2"Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don't wash their hands when they eat bread."