Matthew 15:3

So in answer He said to them: “Why do you even transgress the commandment of God through your tradition?

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In The King James Version

But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?

In Context

2“Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands whenever they eat bread.”

4For God commanded saying, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and ‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’

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Cross References

Matthew 7:3So why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye but do not consider the plank in your own eye?

Mark 7:13making the Word of God of no effect by your tradition that you have handed down. Yes, you do many such things.”

Colossians 2:23Such things do indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-made religion and subservience and asceticism, but are not of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.

Matthew Henry on Matthew 15:2-10

Jesus Reproves the Scribes and Pharisees. 1 Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying, 2 Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread. 3 But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? 4 For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. 5 But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his… Read the whole commentary →

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