“Et conveniunt ad eum pharisæi, et quidam de scribis, venientes ab Jerosolymis.”
“Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem.”
“Then the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus,”
“Then the Pharisees and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem.”
“And there are gathered together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, who had come from Jerusalem,”
None do more resist the wisdom of God, than they that should be wisest, and that upon a zeal of their own traditions: for men do not please themselves more in anything than in superstition, that is to say, in a worship of God fondly devised of themselves. Cross references: : Matt. 15:2
In this chapter we have, I. Christ's dispute with the scribes and Pharisees about eating meat with unwashen hands (ver 1-13); and the needful instructions he gave to the people on that occasion, and further explained to his disciples, ver 14-23. II. His curing of the woman Canaan's daughter that was possessed, ver 24-30. III. The relief of a man that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech, ver 31-37.
Verses 1-13 One great design of Christ's coming was, to set aside the ceremonial law; and to make way for this, he rejects the ceremonies men added to the law of God's making. Those clean hands and that pure heart which Christ bestows on his disciples, and requires of them, are very different from the outward and superstitious forms of Pharisees of every age. Jesus reproves them for rejecting the commandment of God. It is clear that it is the duty of children, if their parents are poor, to relieve them as far as they are able; and if children deserve to die that curse their parents, much more those that starve them. But if a man conformed to the traditions of the Pharisees, they found a device to free him from the claim of this duty.