Matthew 15:1

Human Traditions And God's Commandments

¹ Then some Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, and said to him, ² "Why do your disciples break the rules handed down by our ancestors? For they eat their bread without first washing their hands."

Law of Moses

Pharisees and Teachers of the Law

Scribes and Pharisees

Teachers of the Law

Jerusalem

Jesus

Moses

Pharisees

Matthew 5:20

For I tell you that unless your uprightness is far superior to that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never even enter the Kingdom of Heaven!

Matthew 23:2

"The scribes and Pharisees have taken Moses' seat.

Matthew 23:15-28

Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you scour land and sea to make one convert, and when he is converted you make him twice as fit for the pit as you are.

Mark 3:22

And the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem said that he was possessed by Beelzebub and drove out demons by the help of the prince of demons.

Mark 7:1-23

The Pharisees gathered about him with some scribes who had come from Jerusalem.

Luke 5:17

One day as he was teaching, there were some Pharisees and experts in the Law sitting near by, who had come from every village in Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was there, so that he might cure people.

Luke 5:21

And the scribes and the Pharisees began to debate and say, "Who is this man who talks blasphemy? Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

Luke 5:30

And the Pharisees and their scribes grumbled about it to his disciples, and said, "Why do you eat and drink with tax-collectors and irreligious people?"

Acts 23:9

So there was a great uproar, and some scribes of the Pharisees' party got up and insisted, "We find nothing wrong with this man. Suppose some spirit or angel really spoke to him!"