Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
"Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat {a meal}."
New American Standard Bible
“Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they
King James Version
Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
Holman Bible
“Why do Your disciples
International Standard Version
"Why do your disciples disregard the tradition of the elders? They don't wash their hands when they eat."
A Conservative Version
Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.
American Standard Version
Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
Amplified
“Why do Your disciples violate the
An Understandable Version
"Why do your disciples violate the tradition of the [Jewish] elders? For they do not [ceremonially] wash their hands before eating [their meals]."
Anderson New Testament
Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.
Bible in Basic English
Why do your disciples go against the teaching of the fathers? for they take food with unwashed hands.
Common New Testament
"Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat."
Daniel Mace New Testament
why do your disciples violate the tradition of our ancestors, in not washing their hands when they eat bread?
Darby Translation
Why do thy disciples transgress what has been delivered by the ancients? for they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.
Godbey New Testament
Wherefore do thy disciples transgress the traditions of the elders? for they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.
Goodspeed New Testament
"Why do your disciples break the rules handed down by our ancestors? For they eat their bread without first washing their hands."
John Wesley New Testament
Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders?
Julia Smith Translation
Wherefore do thy disciples pass by the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
King James 2000
Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
Modern King James verseion
Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"Why do thy disciples transgress the traditions of the elders? For they wash not their hands, when they eat bread."
Moffatt New Testament
"Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands when they take their food."
Montgomery New Testament
"Why do your disciples keep transgressing the tradition of the elders by not washing their hands before eating?"
NET Bible
"Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don't wash their hands when they eat."
New Heart English Bible
"Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread."
Noyes New Testament
Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
Sawyer New Testament
Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders, for they wash not their hands when they eat bread?
The Emphasized Bible
Wherefore do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands, when they eat bread!
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread?
Twentieth Century New Testament
"How is it that your disciples break the traditions of our ancestors? For they do not wash their hands when they eat food."
Webster
Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
Weymouth New Testament
"Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the Elders by not washing their hands before meals?"
Williams New Testament
"Why do your disciples break the rules handed down by our forefathers? For they do not practice washing their hands when they take their meals."
World English Bible
"Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don't wash their hands when they eat bread."
Worrell New Testament
"Why do Thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they do not wash their hands, when they eat bread!"
Worsley New Testament
Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat.
Youngs Literal Translation
'Wherefore do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they do not wash their hands when they may eat bread.'
Themes
Christ » Faith in, great » Faultfinding against
the Diet of the jews » Purification before
Ecclesiasticism » Traditional rules of the jewish
Government » Mosaic » Legislates in later times
hands » Were washed » Before eating
Hypocrites » Described as » Regarding tradition more than the word of God
Pharisees » Hypocrisy of, reproved » By jesus
Pharisees » Traditions of, in regard to » The washing of hands
Purification » Traditions of the elders concerning
Purifications or baptisms » Multiplied by traditions
Topics
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Matthew 15:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Human Traditions And God's Commandments
1 Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying, 2 "Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat {a meal}." 3 So he answered [and] said to them, "Why do you also break the commandment of God because of your tradition?
Cross References
Luke 11:38
And the Pharisee, [when he] saw [it], was astonished that he did not first wash before the meal.
Colossians 2:8
Beware lest {anyone take you captive} through philosophy and empty deceit, according to {human tradition}, according to the elemental spirits of the world and not according to Christ,
Genesis 1:14
And God said, "Let there be lights in the vaulted dome of heaven {to separate day from night}, and let them be as signs and for appointed times, and for days and years,
Mark 7:2
And they saw that some of his disciples were eating their bread with unclean--that is, unwashed--hands.
Mark 7:5
And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unclean hands?"
Colossians 2:20-23
If you have died with Christ to the elemental spirits of the world, why do you submit [to them] as [if] living in the world?
1 Peter 1:18
[because you] know that you were redeemed from your futile way of life inherited from your ancestors not with perishable things like silver or gold,