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15:1-20 Then Pharisees and scribes from Jerusalem approached
Jesus saying “Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the
elders? They do not wash their hands
whenever they eat bread.” He answered them and said “Why do you break God’s
commandment on account of your tradition?
For God said “Honour your father and
mother” and “whoever speaks evil of their mother or father, deserves
death.” But you say “Whatever gift I
may owe to you has been given to God.” And so you
have annulled the word of God on account of your tradition. Hypocrites. Isaiah prophesied well concerning you by
saying “This people honours me with their lips but
their heart is far away from me. Vainly do they worship me,-teaching
teachings which are the precepts of men.”
And calling forward the crowd he (Jesus) said to them. “Hear and understand. It is not the thing which enters into the
mouth which defiles the man but the
thing which comes out of his mouth which defiles him.”
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(Explanatory
2nd part)
15:12-20 Then
approaching the disciples say to
him. “Do you know that the Pharisees
were offended on hearing you say this.” And he
answering said “Every plant which is not planted by my heavenly Father
shall be uprooted. Leave them. They are blind leaders of the blind. If a blind man leads a blind man, both
will fall into a ditch.” Answering
Peter said to him. “Explain the
parable to us.” So he said “Are you so lacking in
intelligence? Do you not understand
that everything going into the mouth goes into the stomach and is cast out
into a drain? But things coming out
of the mouth and out of the heart.
These defile the man. For it
is out of the heart that evil comes forth thoughts, murders, adulteries,
fornications, thefts, false witnessings, blasphemies. These are the things that defile the
man. But eating with unwashed hands do not
defile the man.”
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