Matthew 15:15

Matthew 15:15. Peter. He again acts as the spokesman, hence ‘unto us.'

Declare, i.e., ‘expound'

The parable. That of Matthew 15:11 (comp. Mark 7:17). The declaration in Matthew 15:11, was a ‘hard saying ‘to those who were born Jews, and hence Peter might have called it a ‘parable,' especially as our Lord had so often taught the deeper truths in that form. Or the disciples, with their Jewish education, might have thought: this saying to which the Pharisees so much object is not to be taken literally, it must be a parable. The censure of the next verse favors this explanation.