Parallel Verses
Weymouth New Testament
"Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the Elders by not washing their hands before meals?"
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.
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}."
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.
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 there came to Jesus a party of Pharisees and Scribes from Jerusalem, who inquired, 2 "Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the Elders by not washing their hands before meals?" 3 "Why do you, too," He retorted, "transgress God's commands for the sake of your tradition?
Cross References
Luke 11:38
Now the Pharisee saw to his surprise that He did not wash His hands before breakfasting.
Colossians 2:8
Take care lest there be some one who leads you away as prisoners by means of his philosophy and idle fancies, following human traditions and the world's crude notions instead of following Christ.
Mark 7:2
They had noticed that some of His disciples were eating their food with 'unclean' (that is to say, unwashed)
Mark 7:5
So the Pharisees and Scribes put the question to Him: "Why do your disciples transgress the traditions of the Elders, and eat their food with unclean hands?"
Colossians 2:20-23
If you have died with Christ and have escaped from the world's rudimentary notions, why, as though your life still belonged to the world, do you submit to such precepts as
1 Peter 1:18
knowing, as you do, that it was not with a ransom of perishable wealth, such as silver or gold, that you were set free from your frivolous habits of life which had been handed down to you from your forefathers,