Matthew 15:1
Then came to Jesus Pharisees and Scribes that were from Jerusalem, and said:
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying,
In Context
Cross References
Matthew 23:2and said to them: The Scribes and Pharisees sit in the seat of Moses.
Mark 3:22And those Scribes that had come down from Jerusalem, said: Beelzebub is in him; and by the prince of demons he expelleth demons.
Luke 5:17And it occurred, on one of the days when Jesus was teaching, that Pharisees and Doctors of the law were sitting by, who had come from all the villages of Galilee and of Judaea, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them.
Luke 5:30And the Scribes and Pharisees murmured, and said to his disciples: Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners?
Matthew Henry on Matthew 15:1
In this chapter, we have our Lord Jesus, as the great Prophet teaching, as the great Physician healing, and as the great Shepherd of the sheep feeding; as the Father of spirits instructing them; as the Conqueror of Satan dispossessing him; and as concerned for the bodies of his people, providing for them. Here is, I. Christ's discourse with the scribes and Pharisees about human traditions and injunctions, ver. 1-9 . II. His discourse with the multitude, and with his disciples, concerning the things that defile a… Read the whole commentary →