nsb - Matthew:15:1-20

nsb@Matthew:15:1 @ Pharisees and scribes from Jerusalem came to Jesus.

nsb@Matthew:15:2 @ They questioned him: »Why do your disciples go against the teaching of the fathers? They eat food with unwashed hands.«

nsb@Matthew:15:3 @ His answer to them was in the form of a question: »Why do you go against the word of God in favor of your tradition?

nsb@Matthew:15:4 @ »God said, Honor your father and mother. He who says evil of father or mother will be put to death.

nsb@Matthew:15:5 @ »You teach that a man should tell his father or mother that what he has that could help them, is given to God.

nsb@Matthew:15:6 @ »You say there is no need for him to give honor to his father. You have invalidated the word of God because of your tradition!

nsb@Matthew:15:7 @ »You hypocrites! Isaiahs prophecy was right about you.

nsb@Matthew:15:8 @ »These people honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

nsb@Matthew:15:9 @ »But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.«

nsb@Matthew:15:10 @ He got the people together and said to them: »Listen, and let my words be clear to you.

nsb@Matthew:15:11 @ »That which comes out of the mouth makes a man unclean, not that which goes into the mouth.«

nsb@Matthew:15:12 @ The disciples told him the Pharisees were upset by what he said.

nsb@Matthew:15:13 @ In answer he replied: »Every plant my Father in heaven has not planted in the earth will be pulled out by the roots.

nsb@Matthew:15:14 @ »Let them be. They are blind guides. If a blind man guides another blind man, they will fall in a hole together.«

nsb@Matthew:15:15 @ Then Peter said to him: »Make the story clear to us.«

nsb@Matthew:15:16 @ He replied: »Are you, like them, without wisdom?

nsb@Matthew:15:17 @ »Do you not see, that which goes into the mouth, goes into the stomach and is sent out as waste?

nsb@Matthew:15:18 @ »That which comes out of the mouth, comes from the heart and makes a man unclean.

nsb@Matthew:15:19 @ »Evil thoughts come from the heart! Thoughts about murder, adultery, fornication, theft, lying, and slander come from the heart!

nsb@Matthew:15:20 @ »These things make a man unclean. Eating food with unwashed hands does not make a man unclean.«