Thematic Bible: Legislates in later times
Thematic Bible
Government » Mosaic » Legislates in later times
"Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don't wash their hands when they eat."
Verse Concepts
Hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you when he said, This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, and they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'"
Now the Pharisees and some of the experts in the law who came from Jerusalem gathered around him. And they saw that some of Jesus' disciples ate their bread with unclean hands, that is, unwashed. (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they perform a ritual washing, holding fast to the tradition of the elders.