Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying?

Then came his disciples, and said to him: Dost thou know that the Pharisees, when they heard this word, were scandalized?

Then his disciples, coming up, said to him, Dost thou know that the Pharisees, having heard this word, have been offended?

Then his disciples having come near, said to him, 'Hast thou known that the Pharisees, having heard the word, were stumbled?'

Then came his disciples, and said to him, Know you that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying?

Then His disciples came and said to Him, "Do you know that the Pharisees were greatly shocked when they heard those words?"

Then the disciples came and said to him, Did you see that the Pharisees were troubled when these words came to their ears?

Then his disciples drew near and said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees, upon hearing this word, were offended?"

His disciples came up to him, and said, "Do you know that the Pharisees were shocked on hearing what you said?"

The Pharisees were offended - They were so zealous of their traditions that they could not endure that their absurdities should be exposed.

The Pharisees were offended - None so liable to take offense as formalists and hypocrites, when you attempt to take away the false props from the one, and question the sincerity of the other. Besides, a Pharisee must never be suspected of ignorance, for they are the men, and wisdom must die with them!

Then came his disciples, and said unto him,.... That is, after he had dismissed the people, and was come into a private house; see Mark 7:17 his disciples came to him, being alone, full of concern, for what he had said to the Pharisees, and before all the people; and not so well understanding it themselves.
Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended after they heard this saying?, that they set aside the commandments of God, by observing the traditions of the elders; or that they were hypocrites; and that the prophecy of Isaiah, which describes such persons, belonging to them; or that not what goes into, but what comes out of a man, defiles him: whichever it was they have respect unto, or it may be to the whole, they seem to wish Christ had not said it; because the Pharisees were, as they thought, grieved and troubled at it, as being contrary to true religion and piety; and lest they should be so stumbled, as no more to attend, and so all hopes of bringing them over to the faith of Christ be lost; and chiefly, because they perceived they were made exceeding angry, and were highly provoked; so that they might fear that both Christ, and they themselves, would feel the effects of their wrath and rage; and perhaps it was with some such view, that he would take some prudential step that he might not fall into their hands, that they acquaint him with it.

Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying?--They had given vent to their irritation, and perhaps threats, not to our Lord Himself, from whom they seem to have slunk away, but to some of the disciples, who report it to their Master.

The Pharisees were offended. Found fault. They would insist that he set aside the law, whereas it was tradition that he rejected.