Matthew 15:16

16 "Are even you," He answered, "still without intellingence?

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 alone. They are blind guides of the blind; and if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into some pit."

15 "Explain to us this figurative language," said Peter.

16 "Are even you," He answered, "still without intellingence?

17 Do you not understand that whatever enters the mouth passes into the stomach and is afterwards ejected from the body?

18 But the things that come out of the mouth proceed from the heart, and it is these that defile the man.