SEV Biblia, Chapter 15:12
Entonces llegndose sus discípulos, le dijeron: ¿Sabes que los fariseos, oyendo esta palabra, se ofendieron?
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Matthew 15:12
Verse 12. The Pharisees were offended] None so liable to take offense as formalists and hypocrites, when you attempt to take away the false props from the one, and question the sincerity of the other. Besides, a Pharisee must never be suspected of ignorance, for they are the men, and wisdom must die with them!
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 12. Then came his disciples, and said unto him , etc.] That is, after he had dismissed the people, and was come into a private house; (see Mark 7:17) his disciples came to him, being alone, full of concern, for what he had said to the Pharisees, and before all the people; and not so well understanding it themselves. Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended after they heard this saying? , that they set aside the commandments of God, by observing the traditions of the elders; or that they were hypocrites; and that the prophecy of Isaiah, which describes such persons, belonging to them; or that not what goes into, but what comes out of a man, defiles him: whichever it was they have respect unto, or it may be to the whole, they seem to wish Christ had not said it; because the Pharisees were, as they thought, grieved and troubled at it, as being contrary to true religion and piety; and lest they should be so stumbled, as no more to attend, and so all hopes of bringing them over to the faith of Christ be lost; and chiefly, because they perceived they were made exceeding angry, and were highly provoked; so that they might fear that both Christ, and they themselves, would feel the effects of their wrath and rage; and perhaps it was with some such view, that he would take some prudential step that he might not fall into their hands, that they acquaint him with it.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 10-20 - Christ shows that the defilement they ought to fear, was not from what entered their mouths as food, but from what came out of their mouths which showed the wickedness of their hearts. Nothing will last in the soul but the regenerating graces of the Holy Spirit; and nothing shoul be admitted into the church but what is from above; therefore, whoeve is offended by a plain, seasonable declaration of the truth, we shoul not be troubled at it. The disciples ask to be better taught as to thi matter. Where a weak head doubts concerning any word of Christ, a upright heart and a willing mind seek for instruction. It is the hear that is desperately wicked, Jer 17:9, for there is no sin in word of deed, which was not first in the heart. They all come out of the man and are fruits of that wickedness which is in the heart, and is wrough there. When Christ teaches, he will show men the deceitfulness an wickedness of their own hearts; he will teach them to humbl themselves, and to seek to be cleansed in the Fountain opened for sin and uncleanness.
Greek Textus Receptus
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Robertson's NT Word Studies
15:12 {Were offended} (eskandalisqesan). First aorist passive. "Were caused to stumble,"have taken offence" (Moffatt), "have turned against you" (Weymouth), "were shocked" (Goodspeed), "War ill-pleased" (Braid Scots). They took umbrage at the public rebuke and at such a scorpion sting in it all. It cut to the quick because it was true. It showed in the glowering countenances of the Pharisees so plainly that the disciples were uneasy. See on 5:29.
