MATTHEW 15:14 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.”
Let them alone; they are blind guides. And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit. The blind guides — the Pharisees who cannot see the distinction between the commandment of God and the tradition of men — will lead those who follow them into the same blindness. The pit that both the guide and the guided fall into is the eschatological judgment that follows from the heart's distance from God (verse 8).
Church Fathers on Matthew 15:14
In one of the Lord’s discourses the whole superstition of Jewish observances had been cut down. They placed their whole religion in using or abstaining from certain meats.
When the Pharisees heard the things that went before, they made no reply to them, because He had so mightily overthrown them, not only refuting their arguments, but detecting their fraud, but they, not the multitudes, were offended at them.
What He intends then by a plant not planted of His Father, is that tradition of men under cover of which the Law had been transgressed, this He instructs them must be rooted up.
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