Matthew 15:12-14
<p>Feb 14, 2012 05:27 AM <b>v13 thru Clarke.</b>
 
<b>12 Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying?</b>
Guzic:</p>
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<p>Barnes</p>
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<li>The Pharisees were offended - They were so zealous of their traditions that they could not endure that their absurdities should be exposed.</li>
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<p><a href="http://clarke.biblecommenter.com/matthew/15.htm">http://clarke.biblecommenter.com/matthew/15.htm</a></p>
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<li>Besides, a Pharisee must never be suspected of ignorance, for they are the men, and wisdom must die with them!</li>
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<p><a href="http://pnt.biblecommenter.com/matthew/15.htm">http://pnt.biblecommenter.com/matthew/15.htm</a></p>
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<li>They would insist that he set aside the law, whereas it was tradition that he rejected.</li>
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<p>Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</p>
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<li>They had given vent to their irritation, and perhaps threats, not to our Lord Himself, from whom they seem to have slunk away, but to some of the disciples, who report it to their Master.</li>
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<p>Matthew Henry Concise:</p>
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<li>Where a weak head doubts concerning any word of Christ, an upright heart and a willing mind seek for instruction.</li>
<li>When Christ teaches, he will show men the deceitfulness and wickedness of their own hearts; he will teach them to humble themselves, and to seek to be cleansed in the Fountain opened for sin and uncleanness.</li>
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<p>Matthew Henry Whole:</p>
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<li>,,,though in indifferent things we must be tender of giving offence, yet we must not, for fear of that, evade any truth or duty. <b>Truth must be owned, and duty done; and if any be offended, it is his own fault;</b> it is scandal, not given, but taken.</li>
<li>Weak hearers are sometimes more solicitous than they should be not to have wicked hearers offended. But<b> if we please men with the concealment of truth, and the indulgence of their errors and corruptions, we are not the servants of Christ.</b></li>
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<p> 
<b>13 But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.</b>
 
Guzik:</p>
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<li>“There was no need for the disciples to combat the Pharisees, they would be uprooted in the natural order of things by the inevitable consequences of their own course.” (Spurgeon)</li>
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14 Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.</p>