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Matthew 15:1-20

1 After that, Pharisees and religion scholars came to Jesus all the way from Jerusalem, criticizing,

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

2 "Why do your disciples play fast and loose with the rules?"

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

3 But Jesus put it right back on them. "Why do you use your rules to play fast and loose with God's commands?

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

4 God clearly says, 'Respect your father and mother,' and, 'Anyone denouncing father or mother should be killed.'

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 weasel around that by saying, 'Whoever wants to, can say to father and mother, What I owed to you I've given 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 That can hardly be called respecting a parent. You cancel God's command by your rules.

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 Frauds! Isaiah's prophecy of you hit the bull's-eye:

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

8 These people make a big show of saying the right thing, but their heart isn't in it.

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

9 They act like they're worshiping me, but they don't mean it. They just use me as a cover for teaching whatever suits their fancy."

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

10 He then called the crowd together and said, "Listen, and take this to heart.

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

11 It's not what you swallow that pollutes your life, but what you vomit up."

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

12 Later his disciples came and told him, "Did you know how upset the Pharisees were when they heard 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 Jesus shrugged it off. "Every tree that wasn't planted by my Father in heaven will be pulled up by its roots.

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

14 Forget them. They are blind men leading blind men. When a blind man leads a blind man, they both end up in the ditch."

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

15 Peter said, "I don't get it. Put it in plain language."

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

16 Jesus replied, "You too? Are you being willfully stupid?

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

17 Don't you know that anything that is swallowed works its way through the intestines and is finally defecated?

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

18 But what comes out of the mouth gets its start in the heart.

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

19 It's from the heart that we vomit up evil arguments, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, lies, and cussing.

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

20 That's what pollutes. Eating or not eating certain foods, washing or not washing your hands - that's neither here nor there." Healing the People

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