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New Testament
Matthew 15:1-20
Commandments and Traditions
151Then the Pharisees and experts in the law came to Jesus from Jerusalem and asked, 2“Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands when they eat bread.”
3He answered them, “And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? 4For example, God said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’[] and, ‘Whoever speaks evil of his father or mother should be put to death.’ 5But you say that if someone tells his father or mother, ‘Whatever help you might have received from me has been dedicated as a gift to God,’[] 6that man does not need to honor his father or his mother.[] And so you set aside the word of God for the sake of your tradition. 7Hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you:
8These people honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
10Then he summoned the crowd and said to them, “Listen and understand. 11What goes into the mouth does not make a person unclean, but it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles a person.”
12Then the disciples came and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees took offense when they heard this saying?”
13He answered, “Every plant which my heavenly Father did not plant will be uprooted. 14Let them go. They are blind guides of the blind.[] And if the blind are guiding the blind, both will fall into a pit.”
15Peter replied and said to him, “Explain the parable to us.”
16Jesus said, “Do you still not understand? 17Do you not understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated into the latrine? 18But whatever comes out of the mouth comes from the heart. That is what defiles a person. 19To be sure, out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimonies, and blasphemies. 20These are the things that defile a person. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a person.”
Footnotes
- 15:4 Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16
- 15:5 See Mark 7:11.
- 15:6 A few witnesses to the text omit or his mother.
- 15:9 Isaiah 29:13
- 15:14 A few witnesses to the text omit of the blind.