Matthew 15:19 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: ”

• Matthew 15:19 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  See also Mark 7:17-23 . Then answered Peter, and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable - See the notes at Matthew 13:3 . The word “parable” sometimes means a dark or obscure saying, Ps...

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• Matthew 15:19 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Washing of Hands and the Traditions of the Elders ( Mark 7:1-23 *). Mt. is again briefer than Mk. He omits the parenthetical explanation Mark 7:3 f. and the technical term Corban, turns the...

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• Matthew 15:19 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  evil. Greek. poneros. App-128. thoughts . reasonings. false witness. Greek. pseudomarturia. Occurs only in Matthew (here, and Matthew 26:59 ).

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• Matthew 15:19 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  19. For out of the heart proceed wicked thoughts Hence we infer that the word mouth, as I have mentioned, was used by Christ in a former verse by way of allusion to the context; for now h...

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• Matthew 15:19 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: Out of the heart - In the heart of an unregenerate man, the principles and seeds of...

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• Matthew 15:19 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Evil thoughts— Διαλογισμοι πονηροι, evil reasonings: So I choose to render it, says Dr. Doddridge, as better suiting both the original and the occasion, and as containing a more universal and imp...

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• Matthew 15:19 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, х dialogismoi ( G1261 ) p...

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• Matthew 15:19 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Traditions of the Elders. The Canaanitish Woman. Feeding the Four Thousand 1-20. Unwashed hands and the traditions of the elders ( Mark 7:1 ). In this important controversy Jesus defined His p...

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• Matthew 15:19 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Evil thoughts,... blasphemies. — The plural form points to the manifold variety of the forms of guilt under each several head. The order is in some measure an ascending one, beginning with the “tho...

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• Matthew 15:19 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Chapter 12 The Crisis in Galilee Matthew 14:1-36 - Matthew 15:1-39 - Matthew 16:1-12 . THE lives of John and of Jesus, lived so far apart, and with so little intercommunication, have yet be...

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• Matthew 15:19 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  What Really Defiles Matthew 15:10-20 It is good to study our Lord's list of the sources of soul-pollution. Evil thoughts come first. We cannot prevent an evil suggestion being presented to ou...

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• Matthew 15:19 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The question was not of cleanliness, but of ritual. This washing of hands to remove imaginary evil was a part of the tradition of the elders. Against the binding of such burdens on men our Lord passi...

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• Matthew 15:19 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  "And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand: (11) Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man. (12) Then...

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• Matthew 15:19 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  EVIL THOUGHTS ‘For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts.’ Matthew 15:19 The depravity of man is a fact attested by history and experience. The source of the depravity is spiritual; the evi...

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• Matthew 15:19 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts ,.... Of God, of Christ, of the Spirit, of fellow creatures, and of all sorts of wickedness. The thoughts of sin are evil, are to be hated, forsaken, and f...

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• Matthew 15:19 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: Ver. 19. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts ] These are the first and im...

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• Matthew 15:19 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Peter said, Declare unto us this parable That is, the sentence, maxim, or proverb, mentioned Matthew 15:11 . Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth the man , &c. A declaration very inte...

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• Matthew 15:19 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  After the power and grace of the Lord Jesus has wrought so great, refreshing blessing, the cold, barren criticism of scribes and Pharisees of Jerusalem is an example of how the deadening principle of...

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• Matthew 15:19 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  What Defileth a Man.       10 And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand:   11 Not that which goeth into the m...

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• Matthew 15:19 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  See Poole on " Matthew 15:20 " .

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• Matthew 15:19 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  “For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, railings.” Here ‘evil thoughts' is probably a summary of what is then given in detail. Thus...

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• Matthew 15:19 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES Matthew 15:1 . Of Jerusalem. — From Jerusalem (see R.V.). Probably a deputation from the Sanhedrin sent expressly to watch Him. Matthew 15:2 . Transgress the tradition. —The J...

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• Matthew 15:19 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Matthew 15:1 . Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying, Our Lord had been busily engaged in healing the sick, and now these pettifoggers came round about him to...

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• Matthew 15:19 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Matthew 15:2 . Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? The cabala, or unwritten law, was counted by the pharisees of equal authority with the law itself. Rabbi Aquiba says, he...

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• Matthew 15:19 - The Biblical Illustrator

  For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts. Our evil thoughts I. When may your thoughts be counted voluntary, and we be truly and justly answerable for then? 1. When evil thoughts are plainl...

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• Matthew 15:19 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Matthew 15:1-40 Discourse concerning ceremonial pollution. ( Mark 7:1-41 .) Matthew 15:1 Then . This is after the third Passover, which whether our Lord attended or not...

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• Matthew 15:19 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Jesus explains the parable:

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• Matthew 15:19 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Acts 8:22 ; Ephesians 2:1-3 ; Galatians 5:19-21 ; Genesis 6:5 ; Genesis 8:21 ; Isaiah 55:7 ; Isaiah 59:7 ; James 1:13-15 ; Jeremiah 17:9 ; Jeremiah 4:14 ; Mark 7:21-23 ; Matthew 9:4 ; Pr...

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• Matthew 15:19 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  First evil thoughts — then murders — and the rest. Railings — The Greek word includes all reviling, backbiting, and evil speaking.

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