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Matthew 15:1-20
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Tradition and Commandment
1
1
Then
some
Pharisees
and
scribes
came
to
Jesus
2
from
Jerusalem
and
said
,
2
"Why
*
do Your
disciples
break
the
tradition
of the
elders
? For they
3
do 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
, '
4
HONOR
YOUR
FATHER
AND
MOTHER
,' and, '
5
HE 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
'
6
THIS
PEOPLE
HONORS
ME WITH THEIR
LIPS
,
BUT THEIR
HEART
IS
FAR
AWAY
FROM ME.
9
'BUT IN
VAIN
DO THEY
WORSHIP
ME,
TEACHING
AS
7
DOCTRINES
THE
PRECEPTS
OF
MEN
.' "
10
After Jesus
called
the
crowd
to Him, He
said
to them,
"Hear
and
understand
.
11
"
8
It 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
,
"
9
Every
plant
which
My
heavenly
Father
did not
plant
shall be
uprooted
.
14
"Let
them
alone
;
10
they are
blind
guides
of the
blind
. And
11
if
a
blind
man
guides
a
blind
man
,
both
will
fall
into a
pit
."
The Heart of Man
15
Peter
said
to Him, "
12
Explain
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
13
the things that
proceed
out of the
mouth
come
from the
heart
, and
those
defile
the
man
.
19
"
14
For 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
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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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