Mark 7:17
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New International Version (©2011)
After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about this parable.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Then Jesus went into a house to get away from the crowd, and his disciples asked him what he meant by the parable he had just used.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And when he had entered the house and left the people, his disciples asked him about the parable.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
When he had left the crowd and entered the house, His disciples questioned Him about the parable.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
When He went into the house away from the crowd, the disciples asked Him about the parable.

International Standard Version (©2012)
When he had left the crowd and gone home, his disciples began asking him about the parable.

NET Bible (©2006)
Now when Jesus had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about the parable.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
But when Yeshua entered the house from the crowds, his disciples asked him about that parable.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
When he had left the people and gone home, his disciples asked him about this illustration.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.

American King James Version
And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.

American Standard Version
And when he was entered into the house from the multitude, his disciples asked of him the parable.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when he was come into the house from the multitude, his disciples asked him the parable.

Darby Bible Translation
And when he went indoors from the crowd, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.

English Revised Version
And when he was entered into the house from the multitude, his disciples asked of him the parable.

Webster's Bible Translation
And when he had entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.

Weymouth New Testament
After He had left the crowd and gone indoors, His disciples began to ask Him about this figure of speech.

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

Young's Literal Translation
And when he entered into a house from the multitude, his disciples were questioning him about the simile,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

7:14-23 Our wicked thoughts and affections, words and actions, defile us, and these only. As a corrupt fountain sends forth corrupt streams, so does a corrupt heart send forth corrupt reasonings, corrupt appetites and passions, and all the wicked words and actions that come from them. A spiritual understanding of the law of God, and a sense of the evil of sin, will cause a man to seek for the grace of the Holy Spirit, to keep down the evil thoughts and affections that work within.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 17. - Our Lord, having proclaimed this great principle to the multitude in the presence of their teachers, the scribes and Pharisees, returned into the house (the true reading is here εἰς οϊκον, without the article). It means, of course, the house where he was lodging. And then his disciples asked of him the parable. St. Matthew (Matthew 15:15) says that the question was put to him by St. Peter speaking in the name of the other disciples - another instance of the reserve main-rained in this Gospel with reference to this apostle.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And when he was entered into the house,.... Very probably at Capernaum, and it may be the house of Simon and Andrew, where he used to be when there:

from the people; being separated from them, having dismissed and left them, when he and his disciples were by themselves alone:

his disciples asked him concerning the parable; that saying of his to the people, which was somewhat dark and intricate to them; that nothing without a man going into him defiled him, but what comes out of him: this was asked by Peter, in the name of the rest; See Gill on Matthew 15:15.

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What Defiles a Man
…16If any man have ears to hear, let him hear. 17And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable. 18And he said to them, Are you so without understanding also? Do you not perceive, that whatever thing from without enters into the man, it cannot defile him; …

Matthew 15:15 Peter said, "Explain the parable to us."
Mark 2:1 A few days later, when Jesus again entered Capernaum, the people heard that he had come home.
Mark 3:20 Then Jesus entered a house, and again a crowd gathered, so that he and his disciples were not even able to eat.
Mark 7:16
Mark 7:18 "Are you so dull?" he asked. "Don't you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them?
Mark 9:28 After Jesus had gone indoors, his disciples asked him privately, "Why couldn't we drive it out?"