Thematic Bible: Faultfinding against


Thematic Bible





When the Pharisees saw this, they asked His disciples, “Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to Him, “Look, Your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath!”

“Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat!”

When the scribes of the Pharisees saw that He was eating with sinners and tax collectors, they asked His disciples, “Why does He eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

They observed that some of His disciples were eating their bread with unclean—that is, unwashed—hands.


Therefore the Jews started complaining about Him because He said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”


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