Thematic Bible: Legislates in later times
Thematic Bible
Government » Mosaic » Legislates in later times
Why do your disciples go against the teaching of the fathers? for they take food with unwashed hands.
Verse Concepts
You false ones, well did Isaiah say of you, These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me. But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.
And there came together to him the Pharisees and certain of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem, And had seen that some of his disciples took their bread with unclean, that is, unwashed, hands. Now the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not take food without washing their hands with care, keeping the old rule which has been handed down to them: