Mat_15:12.
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.] Matthew does not say where? According to Mar_7:17, this took place in the house.
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] Fritzsche and many more take this as referring to Mat_15:3-9. It is to understand it, with Euth. Zigabenus, as pointing to the saying in Mat_15:11 (Paulus, de Wette, Baumgarten-Crusius, Bleek). For this, addressed as it was to the multitude, must have been peculiarly displeasing to the Pharisees; and
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would, on any other supposition than the above, be deprived of its significance as stating the ground of offence.