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Matthew 15:1-14
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Traditions and Commandments
1
1
Then Pharisees and
2
scribes came to Jesus
3
from Jerusalem and said,
2
4
"Why do your disciples break
5
the tradition of the elders?
6
For they do not wash their hands when they eat."
3
He answered them,
"And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?
4
For God commanded,
7
'Honor your father and your mother,' and,
8
'Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.'
5
But you say, 'If anyone tells his father or his mother, "What you would have gained from me is given to God,"
[a]
6
he need not honor his father.'
So for the sake of your tradition you have
9
made void the word
[b]
of God.
7
10
You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said:
8
11
"'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me;
9
in vain do they worship me, teaching as
12
doctrines the commandments of men.'"
What Defiles a Person
10
And he called the people to him and said to them,
13
"Hear and understand:
11
14
it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person."
12
Then the disciples came and said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees were
15
offended when they heard this saying?"
13
He answered,
16
"Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted
17
will be rooted up.
14
Let them alone;
18
they are blind guides.
[c]
And
19
if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit."
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1.
For ver. 1-20, see
Mark 7:1-23
2.
Mark 3:22
3.
Mark 3:22
4.
[
Matthew 9:11
]
5.
Galatians 1:14
;
Colossians 2:8
6.
Luke 11:38
7.
Cited from
Exodus 20:12
8.
Cited from
Exodus 21:17
9.
Galatians 3:17
(Gk.); [
Romans 2:23
]
10.
Matthew 23:13
11.
Cited from
Isaiah 29:13
; [
Ezekiel 33:31
]
12.
Colossians 2:22
;
Titus 1:14
13.
Matthew 13:51
14.
See
Acts 10:14, 15
15.
[
Matthew 13:57
;
Luke 7:23
]
16.
[
Isaiah 60:21
;
Isaiah 61:3
;
John 15:1, 2
;
1 Corinthians 3:9
]
17.
Jude 12
18.
Matthew 23:16, 24
; [
Isaiah 56:10
;
Malachi 2:8
]
19.
Luke 6:39
Footnotes
3
[a].
Or is an offering
[b].
Some manuscripts law
[c].
Some manuscripts add of the blind
The English Standard Version is published with the permission of Good News Publishers.