mnt - Matthew:15:1-20

mnt@Matthew:15:1 @ Then some Scribes and Pharisees from Jerusalem came to Jesus, saying,

mnt@Matthew:15:2 @ "Why do your disciples keep transgressing the tradition of the elders by not washing their hands before eating?"

mnt@Matthew:15:3 @ "And why do you also keep transgressing the command of God by your tradition?" he asked.

mnt@Matthew:15:4 @ "For God said, Honor your father and mother, and, Let him who reviles father or mother be put to death;

mnt@Matthew:15:5 @ but you say that whoever tells his father or mother, Whatever of mine might have been of service to you is dedicated to God,

mnt@Matthew:15:6 @ is in no way bound to honor his father. Thus do you make void the word of God by your tradition!

mnt@Matthew:15:7 @ Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy concerning you, saying.

mnt@Matthew:15:8 @ This is a people that honors me with their lips, But their heart is far from me.

mnt@Matthew:15:9 @ In vain do they worship me, While they teach doctrines that are the commands of men."

mnt@Matthew:15:10 @ Then Jesus called the people to him and said.

mnt@Matthew:15:11 @ "Listen, and pay attention. It is not what goes into a mans mouth that defiles him, but what comes out of it, that defiles the man."

mnt@Matthew:15:12 @ Then his disciples came to him and said, "Do you know that the Pharisees were scandalized when they heard that saying?" He replied.

mnt@Matthew:15:13 @ "Any plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted.

mnt@Matthew:15:14 @ "Let them alone. They are blind men leading the blind; and if one blind man leads another, both of them will fall into a ditch."

mnt@Matthew:15:15 @ Then Peter said to Jesus, "Explain the parable to us."

mnt@Matthew:15:16 @ He answered. "Are even you still without understanding?

mnt@Matthew:15:17 @ "Do you not know how all that goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is afterward evacuated;

mnt@Matthew:15:18 @ while what comes out of the mouth comes from the heart - and that is what defiles a man.

mnt@Matthew:15:19 @ For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murder, adultery, unchastity, theft, perjury, slander.

mnt@Matthew:15:20 @ These are the things that defile a man; to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man."