Mark 7:17 - Exposition

Our Lord, having proclaimed this great principle to the multitude in the presence of their teachers, the scribes and Pharisees, returned into the house (the true reading is here εἰς οἶκον , without the article). It means, of course, the house where he was lodging . And then his disciples asked of him the parable . St. Matthew ( Matthew 15:15 ) says that the question was put to him by St. Peter speaking in the name of the other disciples—another instance of the reserve main-rained in this Gospel with reference to this apostle.