Thematic Bible: Legislates in later times
Thematic Bible
Government » Mosaic » Legislates in later times
"Why do your disciples break the rules handed down by our ancestors? For they eat their bread without first washing their hands."
Verse Concepts
You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied finely about you when he said, " 'This people honor me with their lips, Yet their hearts are far away from me. But their worship of me is all in vain, For the lessons they teach are but human precepts.' "
The Pharisees gathered about him with some scribes who had come from Jerusalem. They had noticed that some of his disciples ate their food without first giving their hands a ceremonial washing to purify them. For the Pharisees and all the Jews observe the rules handed down from their ancestors, and will not eat until they have washed their hands in a particular way,