Matthew 15:1

Human Traditions And God's Commandments

¹ Then Pharisees and scribes from Jerusalem came to Jesus, saying, ² "Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands when they take their food."

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, unless your goodness excels that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never get into the Realm of heaven.

Matthew 23:2

"The scribes and Pharisees sit on the seat of Moses;

Matthew 23:15-28

Woe to you, you impious scribes and Pharisees! you traverse sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when you succeed you make him a son of Gehenna twice as bad as yourselves.

Mark 3:22

But the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem said, "He has Beelzebul," and "It is by the prince of daemons that he casts out daemons."

Mark 7:1-23

Now the Pharisees gathered to meet him, with some scribes who had come from Jerusalem.

Luke 5:17

One day he was teaching, and near him sat Pharisees and doctors of the Law who had come from every village of Galilee and Judaea as well as from Jerusalem. Now the power of the Lord was present for the work of healing.

Luke 5:21

Then the scribes and Pharisees began to argue, "Who is this blasphemer? Who can forgive sins, who but God alone?"

Luke 5:30

But the Pharisees and their scribes complained to his disciples, "Why do you eat and drink with taxgatherers and sinners?"

Acts 23:9

Thus a loud clamour broke out. Some of the scribes who belonged to the Pharisaic party got up and contended, "We find nothing wrong about this man. What if some spirit or angel has spoken to him?"