{Are ye so without understanding also?} (Hout(9373) kai humeis
asunetoi este;). See on 烘t 15:16|. You also as well as the
multitude. It was a discouraging moment for the great Teacher if
his own chosen pupils (disciples) were still under the spell of
the Pharisaic theological outlook. It was a riddle to them. "They
had been trained in Judaism, in which the distinction between
clean and unclean is ingrained, and could not understand a
statement abrogating this" (Gould). They had noticed that the
Pharisees stumbled at the parable of Jesus ( Mt 15:12 ). They
were stumbling themselves and did not know how to answer the
Pharisees. Jesus charges the disciples with intellectual dulness
and spiritual stupidity.