Thematic Bible: Legislates in later times
Thematic Bible
Government » Mosaic » Legislates in later times
"Why do Thy 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 honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me. But in vain do they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'"
And there gather together to Him the Pharisees, and some of the scribes, who came from Jerusalem, and saw that some of His disciples ate bread with defiled, that is, unwashed hands. For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, unless they wash their hands thoroughly, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders;