Matthew 15:16

16 "Don't you understand yet?" Jesus asked them.

Matthew 15:16 Meaning and Commentary

Matthew 15:16

And Jesus said
As wondering at, and as being displeased with, and as reproving them for their dulness and ignorance:

are ye also yet without understanding?
you, my disciples, as well as the Scribes and Pharisees; you, who have been with me so long, who have heard so many discourses from me, who for so long a time have been instructed by me, both in private, and in public; and yet do not understand what is so plain and easy, that has nothing of difficulty in it, but what might easily be accounted for.

Matthew 15:16 In-Context

14 Leave them. The Pharisees are blind guides. If a blind person leads another who is blind, both of them will fall into a pit."

15 Peter said, "Explain this to us."

16 "Don't you understand yet?" Jesus asked them.

17 "Don't you see? Everything that enters the mouth goes into the stomach. Then it goes out of the body.

18 But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart. Those are the things that make you 'unclean.'