Matthew 15:3

Jesus replied and said to them: Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God, on account of your tradition?

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders, and wash not their hands when they eat bread?

4For God hath said: Honor thy father, and thy mother; and he that revileth his father or his mother, shall be put to death.

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Cross References

Matthew 7:3And why observest thou the straw in thy brother's eye, and regardest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

Mark 7:13And ye reject the word of God, on account of the tradition which ye hand down. And many things like these, ye do.

Colossians 2:23And they seem to have a kind of wisdom, in a show of humility, and of the fear of God, and of not sparing the body; not in any thing of excellence, but in things subservient to the body.

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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