Mark 7 · Verse 17

Mark 7:17

And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.
Mark 7:17, King James Version

Mark 7:17 in other translations

BSBAfter Jesus had left the crowd and gone into the house, His disciples inquired about the parable.
WEBWhen he had entered into a house away from the multitude, his disciples asked him about the parable.
ASVAnd when he was entered into the house from the multitude, his disciples asked of him the parable.
YLTAnd when he entered into a house from the multitude, his disciples were questioning him about the simile,
DARBYAnd when he went indoors from the crowd, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.
BBEAnd when he had gone into the house away from all the people, his disciples put questions to him about the saying.
WebsterAnd when he had entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.

What does Mark 7:17 mean?

Barnes' Notes
Verse 17. The parable. The obscure and difficult remarks which he had made in Mk 7:15. The word parable, here, means obscure and difficult saying. They could not understand it. They had probably imbibed many of the popular notions of the Pharisees, and they could not understand why a man was not defiled by external things. It was, moreover, a doctrine of the law, that men were ceremonially polluted by contact with dead bodies, etc., and they could not understand how it could be otherwise.

(v) "And when" Mt 15:15

Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Mark 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…

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Mark 7:17 in the original Greek

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

καὶkaiAndG2532
ὅτεhotewhenG3753
εἰσῆλθενeisēlthenHe wentG1525
εἰςeisintoG1519
οἶκονoikon[the] houseG3624
ἀπὸapofromG575
τοῦtoutheG3588
ὄχλου,ochloucrowd,G3793
ἐπηρώτωνepērōtōnwere askingG1905
αὐτὸνautonHimG846
οἱhoitheG3588
μαθηταὶmathētaidisciplesG3101
αὐτοῦautouof HimG846
τὴνtēntheG3588
παραβολήν.parabolēnparable.G3850

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Mark 7:17

  • Matthew 15:15

    Then answered Peter and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable.

  • Matthew 13:36

    Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field.

  • Mark 9:28

    And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out?

  • Mark 4:10

    And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable.

  • Mark 4:34

    But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.

  • Matthew 13:10

    And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
4:10,34; Mt 13:10,36; 15:15

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Mark 7:16

    If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.

  • Mark 7:17

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

  • Mark 7:18

    And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;

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Mark 7:17 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y apartado de la multitud, habiendo entrado en casa, le preguntaron sus discípulos sobre la parábola.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et quand il fut entré dans la maison, s’étant retiré d’avec la foule, ses disciples l’interrogèrent touchant cette parabole.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und als er von der Volksmenge weg in ein Haus eintrat, befragten ihn seine Jünger über das Gleichnis.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Et cum introisset in domum a turba, interrogabant eum discipuli ejus parabolam.