Matthew 15:1

Human Traditions And God's Commandments

¹ Then Pharisees and experts in the law came from Jerusalem to Jesus and said, ² "Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don't wash their hands when they eat."

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 righteousness goes beyond that of the experts in the law and the Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 23:2

"The experts in the law and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat.

Matthew 23:15-28

"Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You cross land and sea to make one convert, and when you get one, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves!

Mark 3:22

The experts in the law who came down from Jerusalem said, "He is possessed by Beelzebul," and, "By the ruler of demons he casts out demons."

Mark 7:1-23

Now the Pharisees and some of the experts in the law who came from Jerusalem gathered around him.

Luke 5:17

Now on one of those days, while he was teaching, there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting nearby (who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem), and the power of the Lord was with him to heal.

Luke 5:21

Then the experts in the law and the Pharisees began to think to themselves, "Who is this man who is uttering blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

Luke 5:30

But the Pharisees and their experts in the law complained to his disciples, saying, "Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?"

Acts 23:9

There was a great commotion, and some experts in the law from the party of the Pharisees stood up and protested strongly, "We find nothing wrong with this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?"