Then answered Peter and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable.
Ver. 15. Declare unto us this parable] It was no parable, but a plain discourse, and easy to be understood, had not they been dull of hearing, and somewhat soured with the pharisaical leaven of the necessity of washing hands before meat: though for that time, by a singular providence of God, they neglected; which both gave occasion to the Pharisees' quarrel, and to this question, whereto our Saviour maketh a most plain and plenary answer.