7:3 - For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands often, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.
Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XI
And there are some other things which they have received to hold, washings of cups and pots and brazen vessels and couches."[95]
7:6 - He answered and said unto them, Well has Isaiah prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
1 Clement
For [the Scripture] saith in a certain place, "This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me."[69]Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book II
And "this people honoureth Me with their lips," it is said, "but their heart is far from Me."[141]
7:9 - And he said unto them, Full well all of you reject the commandment of God, that all of you may keep your own tradition.
Cyprian Epistle XXXIX
The Lord warns us in His Gospel, saying, "Ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may establish your own tradition."[12]
7:13 - Making the word of God of no effect through your tradition, which all of you have delivered: and many such like things do all of you.
Cyprian Epistle LXII
And again the Lord in the Gospel repeals this same saying, and says, "Ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition."[31]Cyprian Epistle LXVII
This also the Lord repeats in the Gospel, and says, "Ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may establish your own tradition."[9]Cyprian Epistle LXXIII
Also the Lord in the Gospel, similarly rebuking and reproving, utters and says, "Ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition."[8]
7:15 - There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.
Tertullian Of Patience
When, then, on being cursed, I smite (with my tongue, ) how shall I be found to have followed the doctrine of the Lord, in which it has been delivered that "a man is defiled,[91]Tertullian On Fasting
and that the Lord Himself in the Gospel has given a compendious answer to every kind of scrupulousness in regard to food; "that not by such things as are introduced into the mouth is a man defiled, but by such as are produced out of the mouth; "[13]
7:19 - Because it enters not into his heart, but into the belly, and goes out into the draught, purging all meats?
Novation On the Jewish Meats
God is not worshipped by the belly nor by meats, which the Lord says will perish, and are "purged" by natural law in the draught.[27]Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XI
and especially when, according to Mark, the Saviour said these things "making all meats clean,"[98]
7:22 - Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book VII
I mean blasphemies, evil-speaking, and if there be any other thing of the like nature.[99]
7:24 - And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know it: but he could not be hid.
Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XI
When Jesus, then, went out from Gennesaret He withdrew indeed from Israel and came, not to Tyre and Sidon, but into "the parts" of Tyre and Sidon, with the result that those of the Gentiles now believe in part; so that if He had visited the whole of Tyre and Sidon, no unbeliever would have been left in it. Now, according to Mark, "Jesus rose up and went into the borders of Tyre,"[156]
7:27 - But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs.
Tertullian On Prayer
from his children, and hand it to dogs? "[44]
7:34 - And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and says unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.
Acts and Martyrdom of St. Matthew the Apostle
of the demons, I shall know the truth for myself by this, by thee laying on hands upon me, and I shall receive my sight. And the apostle having laid his hands upon his eyes, and saying Ephphatha, Jesus,[15]
7:37 - And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He has done all things well: he makes both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.
Lactantius Divine Institutes Book IV
A power worthy of admiration,[345]