Matthew 15:1-9 - Human Traditions And God's Commandments

¹ Then, there come unto Jesus from Jerusalem Pharisees and Scribes, saying - ² Wherefore do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands, when they eat bread!

³ But, he, answering, said unto them - Wherefore do, ye also, transgress the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? ⁴ For, God, said - Honour thy father and thy mother, and - He that revileth father or mother, let him, surely die!

⁵ But, ye, say - Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother - A gift! Whatsoever, out of me, thou mightest be profited, ⁶ in nowise, shall honour his father or his mother - and so ye have cancelled, the word of God, for the sake of your, tradition. ⁷ Hypocrites! well prophesied concerning you, Isaiah, saying -

⁸ This people, with the lips, do, honour, me, while, their heart, far off, holdeth from me; ⁹ But, in vain, do they pay devotions unto me, teaching, for teachings, the commandments of men.

¹ And the Pharisees and certain of the Scribes who have come from Jerusalem gather themselves together unto him; ² and, observing certain of his disciples, that, with defiled hands, that is unwashed, they are eating bread, - - ³ For, the Pharisees, and all the Jews, unless with care they wash their hands, eat not, holding fast the tradition of the elders; ⁴ and coming from market, unless they sprinkle themselves, they eat not, - and, many other things, there are, which they have accepted to hold fast - immersions of cups and measures and copper vessels - - ⁵ and so the Pharisees and the Scribes, question, him - For what cause do thy disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but, with defiled hands, eat bread?

⁶ But, he, said unto them - Well, prophesied Isaiah concerning you, ye hypocrites, as it is written - This people, with the lips do honour me, while, their heart, far off, holdeth from me, - ⁷ But, in vain, do they pay devotions unto me, teaching for teachings, the commandments of men;

⁸ Having, dismissed, the commandment, of God, ye, hold fast, the tradition, of men. ⁹ And he was saying to them - Well, do ye set aside the commandment of God, that, your own tradition, ye may observe; ¹⁰ For, Moses, said - Honour thy father and thy mother, and - He that revileth father or mother, let him, surely die, -

¹¹ But, ye, say - If a man shall say to his father or his mother, Korban! that is, A gift, whatsoever, out of me, thou mightest be profited, ¹² no longer, do ye suffer him to do, aught, for his father or his mother, - ¹³ cancelling the word of God by your tradition which ye have delivered. And, many such similar things, are ye doing!