Matthew 15:3

"And why do you also keep transgressing the command of God by your tradition?" he asked.

Montgomery New Testament

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 keep transgressing the tradition of the elders by not washing their hands before eating?"

4"For God said, Honor your father and mother, and, Let him who reviles father or mother be put to death;

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Cross References

Matthew 7:3"And why do you look at the mote in your brother’s eye, and fail to notice the beam which is in your own eye?

Mark 7:13Thus by your tradition which you have handed down you set at naught the word of God; and you do many other things like that."

Colossians 2:23For these precepts, although they have a show of wisdom with their self-imposed devotions and fastings and bodily austerities, are of no real value against the indulgence of the carnal appetites.

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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