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Discourse on Defilement

Account of the teaching of Jesus

Account of the teaching of Jesus

The Discourse on Defilement is an account of the teaching of Jesus recorded in the New Testament in the Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Mark .

In the account in the Gospel of Matthew, the Pharisees complain to Jesus that his disciples break the tradition of the elders because they do not wash their hands before eating. Jesus responds:

Listen and understand. What goes into a man's mouth does not make him 'unclean', but what comes out of his mouth, that is what makes him 'unclean.'

Matthew uses the occasion to identify other Pharasaic teachings which Jesus says annul the commandment of God, to quote further from the prophecies of Isaiah which are repeatedly referenced by Matthew, to note, without concern, that the Pharisees were offended by Jesus' reply to them (), and to refer again to the disciples' lack of understanding highlighted by the apostle Peter's request for an explanation: "Explain this parable to us" ().

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges treats this interchange as evidence of the influence of the Pharisees at the time of Jesus: "the disciples believed that Christ would be concerned to have offended those who stood so high in popular favour".

The Gospel of Mark has a similar account, in which Jesus explains how a man is defiled by evil that comes out of him:

What comes out of a man is what makes him 'unclean.' For from within, out of men's hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and make a man 'unclean.'

References

References

  1. ''Jesus the miracle worker: a historical and theological study'' by Graham H. Twelftree 1999 {{ISBN. 0-8308-1596-1 page 79
  2. ''The order of the synoptics'' by Bernard Orchard, Harold Riley 1985 {{ISBN. 0-86554-222-8 page 85
  3. [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew%2015:1-15:11&version=NIV Bible gateway]
  4. [http://biblehub.com/commentaries/cambridge/matthew/15.htm Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges] on Matthew 15, accessed 21 January 2017
  5. [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=mark%207:14-7:23&version=NIV Bible gateway]
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