emtv - Matthew:15:1-20

emtv@Matthew:15:1 @ Then the scribes and Pharisees who were from Jerusalem approached Jesus, saying,

emtv@Matthew:15:2 @ "Why do Your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands whenever they eat bread."

emtv@Matthew:15:3 @ He answered and said to them, "Why do you also transgress the commandment of God on account of your tradition?

emtv@Matthew:15:4 @ For God commanded, saying, 'Honor your father and your mother'; and, 'He who curses father or mother, with death let him die.'

emtv@Matthew:15:5 @ But you say, 'Whoever says to his father or mother, "[It is] a gift [to God], whatever profit you might have received from me"-

emtv@Matthew:15:6 @ then by no means should he honor his father or mother.' Thus you have nullified the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition.

emtv@Matthew:15:7 @ Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying,

emtv@Matthew:15:8 @ 'These people draw near to Me with their mouth, and they honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far away from Me.

emtv@Matthew:15:9 @ And in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.' "

emtv@Matthew:15:10 @ And having summoned the crowd, He said to them, "Hear and understand:

emtv@Matthew:15:11 @ Not what goes into the mouth defiles a man; but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man."

emtv@Matthew:15:12 @ Then His disciples approached and said to Him, "You know that when the Pharisees heard this message they were offended?"

emtv@Matthew:15:13 @ But He answered and said, "Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted.

emtv@Matthew:15:14 @ Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. And if the blind guides the blind, both will fall into a ditch."

emtv@Matthew:15:15 @ Then Peter answered and said to Him, "Explain to us this parable."

emtv@Matthew:15:16 @ So Jesus said, "Are you also still without understanding?

emtv@Matthew:15:17 @ Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach, and is cast out into a latrine?

emtv@Matthew:15:18 @ But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man.

emtv@Matthew:15:19 @ For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.

emtv@Matthew:15:20 @ These are the things which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man."