Thematic Bible: Legislates in later times
Thematic Bible
Government » Mosaic » Legislates in later times
Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.
Verse Concepts
Hypocrites! well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying, This people draws near to me with their mouth, and honors me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain, do they worship me, teaching precepts, the commandments of men.
And there came together to him the Pharisees, and some of the scribes, who had come from Jerusalem: and when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with common, that is, with unwashed hands: (for the Pharisees and all the Jews eat not, unless they wash their hands carefully, because they hold the tradition of the elders: