Thematic Bible: Legislates in later times
Thematic Bible
Government » Mosaic » Legislates in later times
"Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat."
Verse Concepts
You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said: "'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'"
Now when the Pharisees gathered to him, with some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem, they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed. (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands, holding to the tradition of the elders,