rsv Matthew:15:1-20
rsv@Matthew:15:1 @ Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said,
rsv@Matthew:15:2 @ "Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat."
rsv@Matthew:15:3 @ He answered them, "And why do you transgress the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?
rsv@Matthew:15:4 @ For God commanded, `Honor your father and your mother,' and, `He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die.'
rsv@Matthew:15:5 @ But you say, `If any one tells his father or his mother, What you would have gained from me is given to God, he need not honor his father.'
rsv@Matthew:15:6 @ So, for the sake of your tradition, you have made void the word of God.
rsv@Matthew:15:7 @ You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said:
rsv@Matthew:15:8 @ `This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me;
rsv@Matthew:15:9 @ in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.'"
rsv@Matthew:15:10 @ And he called the people to him and said to them, "Hear and understand:
rsv@Matthew:15:11 @ not what goes into the mouth defiles a man, but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man."
rsv@Matthew:15:12 @ Then the disciples came and said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?"
rsv@Matthew:15:13 @ He answered, "Every plant which my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up.
rsv@Matthew:15:14 @ Let them alone; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit."
rsv@Matthew:15:15 @ But Peter said to him, "Explain the parable to us."
rsv@Matthew:15:16 @ And he said, "Are you also still without understanding?
rsv@Matthew:15:17 @ Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach, and so passes on?
rsv@Matthew:15:18 @ But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a man.
rsv@Matthew:15:19 @ For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander.
rsv@Matthew:15:20 @ These are what defile a man; but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man."
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