1: None commonly are more bold contemners of God, then they whom God appointed keepers of his law.
*: Mark 7:1
a: Which they received of their ancestors from hand to hand, or their elders allowed, which where the governors of the Church.
2: Their wicked boldness in corrupting the commandments of God, and that upon pretence of godliness, and usurping authority to make laws, is here reproved.
*: Exodus 20:12 Deuteronomy 5:16 Ephesians 6:2
b: By honour is meant all kind of duty which children owe to their parents.
*: Exodus 21:17 Leviticus 20:9 Proverbs 20:20
c: the meaning is this: whatsoever I bestow upon the temple, is to thy profit, for it is as good as if I gave it thee, for (as the Pharisees of our time say) it shall be meritorious for thee, for under this colour of religion they raked to themselves, as though that he that had given anything to the temple, had done the duty of a child.
d: You made of it no power and authority as much as lay in you: for otherwise the commandments of God stand fast in the Church of God, in spite of the world and Satan.
3: The same men are condemned for hypocrisy and superstition, because they made the kingdom of God to stand in outward things.
*: Isaiah 29:13
4: Christ teacheth us, that hypocrisy of false teachers which deceive our souls is not to be borne with-all, no not in indifferent matters, and there is no reason why their ordinary vocation should blind our eyes: otherwise we are like to perish with them.
*: Matthew 7:18
*: John 16:2
*: Luke 6:39
*: Mark 7:17
*: Genesis 6:5 and 8:21 Mark 7:21
*: Mark 7:24,25
e: Coasts which are next to Tyre and Sidon, that is in that quarter where Palestine bendeth toward Phoenicia, and the sea of Syria.
f: Of the stock of the Canaanites, which dwelt in Phoenicia.
5: In that that Christ doeth sometimes as it were stop his ears against the prayers of his saints, he doeth it for his glory, and our profit.
*: Chapter 10:6
g: Of the people of Israel, which people was divided into tribes, but all those tribes came of one house.
6: Christ ceaseth not to be beneficial even there where he is contemned, and in the midst of wolves he gathereth together and fostereth his flock.
*: Mark 8:1
*: Isaiah 35:5
h: Whose members were weakened with the palsy, or by nature, for afterwards it is said, he healed them. now Christ was want to heal in this wise, that such members as were weak, he restored to health, and yet he could easily if he had would, have given them hands and feet and other members which had wanted them.
*: Mark 8:1
7: By doing again this miracle, Christ showeth that he will never be wanting to them that follow him, no not in the wilderness.
i: Go not from my side.
j: Word for word, to lie down backward, as rowers do in rowing they draw their ours to them.
k: A kind of vessel wrought with twigs.
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Chapter 15
3. The commandments and traditions of men. 12. Offence. 13. The plant which is rooted up. 14. Blind leading the blind. 18. The heart. 22. The woman on Canaan. 26. The children's bread: whelps. 28. Faith. 32 Four thousand men fed. 36. Thanksgiving
Then 1 came to Jesus the scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying.
2 * Why do thy disciples transgress the traditions of the
elders? for they a wash not their hands when they eat bread.
3 2 But he answered and said unto them,
Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?
4 *
For God hath commanded, saying,
b Honour thy father and mother: * and he that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
5
But ye say,
c
whosoever shall say to father or mother, By the gift that is
offered by me, thou mayest have profit,
6
Though he honour not his father or his mother, shall be free: thus have ye made the commandment of God of no
d authority by your tradition.
7 3 O hypocrites,
Isaiah prophesied well of you, saying,
8 * This people draweth near unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with the lips, but their heart is far off from me.
9 But in vain they worship me, teaching
for doctrines
men's precepts.
10 4 Then he called the multitude unto him, and said to them, hear and understand.
11 * That which goeth into the mouth, defileth not the man, but that which cometh out of the mouth, that defileth the man.
12 ¶ Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Perceivest thou not, that the Pharisees are offended in hearing
this saying?
13 But he answered and said, *
Every plant which mine heavenly Father hath not planted, shall
be rooted up.
14 Let them alone, they be the * blind leaders of the blind:
and if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
15 ¶ * Then answered Peter, and said to him, Declare unto us this parable.
16 Then said Jesus, Are ye yet without understanding?
17 Perceive ye not yet, that whatsoever entereth into the mouth, goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth, come from the heart, and they defile a man.
19 For out of the heart * come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimony, slanders.
20 These are the things, which defile the man: but to eat with unwashed hands, defileth not the man.
21 * And Jesus went thence, and departed into the e coasts of Tyre and Sidon.
22 And behold, a woman a f Canaanite came out of the same coasts, and cried, saying unto him, Have mercy on me, O Lord, the son of David: my daughter is miserably vexed with a devil,
23 5 But he answered her not a word. Then came to him his disciples, and besought him, saying, Send her away for she crieth after us.
24 But he answered, and said,
I am not sent but unto the * lost sheep of the g
house of Israel.
25 Yet she came, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.
26 But he answered, and said,
It is not good to take the children's bread, and to cast it to whelps.
27 But she said, Truth, Lord; yet indeed the whelps eat of the crumbs, which fall from their masters' table.
28 Then Jesus answered, and said unto her,
O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee, as thou desirest. And her daughter was made whole at that hour.
29 ¶ 6 So Jesus * went away from thence and came near unto the sea of Galilee, and went up into a mountain and sat down there.
30 And great multitudes came to him, * having with them, halt, blind, dumb, h maimed and many other, and cast them down at Jesus' feet, and he healed them.
31 Insomuch that the multitude wondered, to see the dumb speak, the maimed whole, the halt to go, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel.
32 *7 Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said,
I have compassion on this multitude, because they have i continued with me already three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not let them depart fasting, lest they should faint in the way.
33 And his disciples said unto him, Whence
should we get so much bread in the wilderness, as should suffice so great a
multitude?
34 And Jesus said unto them,
How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven, and a few little fishes.
35 Then he commanded the multitude to j sit down on the ground,
36 And took the seven loaves, and the fishes, and gave thanks, and break
them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.
37 And they did all eat, and were sufficed: and they took up of the fragments that remained, seven
k baskets full.
38 And they that had eaten, were four thousand men, beside women, and little children.
39 Then Jesus sent away the multitude, and took ship, and came into the parts of Magdala.
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