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Matthew 15:1-20

1 Then some Pharisees and teachers of the Law came from Jerusalem to Jesus and asked him,

1 Then some Pharisees and teachers of the law came to Jesus from Jerusalem and asked,

2 "Why is it that your disciples disobey the teaching handed down by our ancestors? They don't wash their hands in the proper way before they eat!"

2 “Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They don’t wash their hands before they eat!”

3 Jesus answered, "And why do you disobey God's command and follow your own teaching?

3 Jesus replied, “And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition?

4 For God said, "Respect your father and your mother,' and "If you curse your father or your mother, you are to be put to death.'

4 For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’and ‘Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.’

5 But you teach that if people have something they could use to help their father or mother, but say, "This belongs to God,'

5 But you say that if anyone declares that what might have been used to help their father or mother is ‘devoted to God,’

6 they do not need to honor their father. In this way you disregard God's command, in order to follow your own teaching.

6 they are not to ‘honor their father or mother’ with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.

7 You hypocrites! How right Isaiah was when he prophesied about you!

7 You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you:

8 "These people, says God, honor me with their words, but their heart is really far away from me.

8 “ ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.

9 It is no use for them to worship me, because they teach human rules as though they were my laws!' "

9 They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.’”

10 Then Jesus called the crowd to him and said to them, "Listen and understand!

10 Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen and understand.

11 It is not what goes into your mouth that makes you ritually unclean; rather, what comes out of it makes you unclean."

11 What goes into someone’s mouth does not defile them, but what comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them.”

12 Then the disciples came to him and said, "Do you know that the Pharisees had their feelings hurt by what you said?"

12 Then the disciples came to him and asked, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this?”

13 "Every plant which my Father in heaven did not plant will be pulled up," answered Jesus.

13 He replied, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots.

14 "Don't worry about them! They are blind leaders of the blind; and when one blind man leads another, both fall into a ditch."

14 Leave them; they are blind guides.If the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.”

15 Peter spoke up, "Explain this saying to us."

15 Peter said, “Explain the parable to us.”

16 Jesus said to them, "You are still no more intelligent than the others.

16 “Are you still so dull?” Jesus asked them.

17 Don't you understand? Anything that goes into your mouth goes into your stomach and then on out of your body.

17 “Don’t you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body?

18 But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these are the things that make you ritually unclean.

18 But the things that come out of a person’s mouth come from the heart, and these defile them.

19 For from your heart come the evil ideas which lead you to kill, commit adultery, and do other immoral things; to rob, lie, and slander others.

19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.

20 These are the things that make you unclean. But to eat without washing your hands as they say you should - this doesn't make you unclean."

20 These are what defile a person; but eating with unwashed hands does not defile them.”