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Matthew 15:1-20

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Tradition and Commandment

1 1Then some Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus 2from Jerusalem and said,
2 "Why * do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they 3do not wash their hands when they eat bread."
3 And He answered and said to them, "Why do you yourselves transgress the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?
4 "For God said, '4HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER,' and, '5HE WHO SPEAKS EVIL OF FATHER OR MOTHER IS TO BE PUT TO DEATH.'
5 "But you say, 'Whoever * says to his father or mother, "Whatever * I have that would help you has been given to God,"
6 he is not to honor his father or his mother .' And by this you invalidated the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
7 "You hypocrites, rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you:
8 '6THIS PEOPLE HONORS ME WITH THEIR LIPS, BUT THEIR HEART IS FAR AWAY FROM ME.
9 'BUT IN VAIN DO THEY WORSHIP ME, TEACHING AS 7DOCTRINES THE PRECEPTS OF MEN.' "
10 After Jesus called the crowd to Him, He said to them, "Hear and understand.
11 "8It is not what enters into the mouth that defiles the man, but what proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man."
12 Then the disciples came and said to Him, "Do You know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this statement?"
13 But He answered and said, "9Every plant which My heavenly Father did not plant shall be uprooted.
14 "Let them alone; 10they are blind guides of the blind. And 11if a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit."

The Heart of Man

15 Peter said to Him, "12Explain the parable to us."
16 Jesus said, "Are you still lacking in understanding also?
17 "Do you not understand that everything that goes into the mouth passes into the stomach, and is eliminated *?
18 "But 13the things that proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and those defile the man.
19 "14For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, slanders.
20 "These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man."
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Cross References 14

  • 1. Matthew 15:1-20: {Mark 7:1-23}
  • 2. Mark 3:22; Mark 7:1; John 1:19; Acts 25:7
  • 3. Luke 11:38
  • 4. Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16
  • 5. Exodus 21:17; Leviticus 20:9
  • 6. Isaiah 29:13
  • 7. Colossians 2:22
  • 8. Matthew 15:18; Acts 10:14, 15; 1 Timothy 4:3
  • 9. Isaiah 60:21; Isaiah 61:3; John 15:2; 1 Corinthians 3:9
  • 10. Matthew 23:16, 24
  • 11. Luke 6:39
  • 12. Matthew 13:36
  • 13. Matthew 12:34; Mark 7:20
  • 14. Galatians 5:19f

Footnotes 9

  • [a]. Lit "die the death"
  • [b]. Lit "a gift;" i.e. an offering
  • [c]. I.e. by supporting them with it
  • [d]. Lit "caused to stumble"
  • [e]. Later mss add "of the blind"
  • [f]. Lit "answered and said"
  • [g]. Lit "and He"
  • [h]. Lit "thrown out into the latrine"
  • [i]. I.e. sexual immorality
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