Matthew 15:3

But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, in reply to them, said, Why [do] also you transgress the mitzvat Hashem for the sake of your own masoros?

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

2Why do your talmidim transgress the Masoret HaZekenim (the Tradition of the Elders)? For they do not do the netilat yadayim before meals.

4For Hashem has said, KABED ES AVICHA VES IMMECHA + 15:4 Ex 20:12; Dt 5:16 (honor your father and your mother), and MKALEL AVIV VIMMO MOT YUMAT + 15:4 Ex 21:17; Lv 20:9 (the one cursing his father and mother, to die he must die).

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Cross References

Matthew 7:3And why do you see the speck in the eye of your Ach, + 7:3 b'Moshiach but you do not consider the beam in your own eye.

Mark 7:13You nullify and make void the dvar Hashem by means of your Masoret you received. And you do many similar things.

Colossians 2:23Which things have a superficial appearance of chochmah in self-imposed religion and mystical asceticism and severe physical mortification, but are of no value against the indulgence of the yetzer (the so-called basar unrenewed and unregenerated by the Ruach Hakodesh).

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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