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Matthew - ch 15 v 1 - 20
- Then come unto Jesus do they from Jerusalem -- scribes and Pharisees -- saying,
- `Wherefore do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they do not wash their hands when they may eat bread.'
- And he answering said to them, `Wherefore also do ye transgress the command of God because of your tradition?
- for God did command, saying, Honour thy father and mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother -- let him die the death;
- but ye say, Whoever may say to father or mother, An offering `is' whatever thou mayest be profited by me; --
- and he may not honour his father or his mother, and ye did set aside the command of God because of your tradition.
- `Hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,
- This people doth draw nigh to Me with their mouth, and with the lips it doth honour Me, but their heart is far off from Me;
- and in vain do they worship Me, teaching teachings -- commands of men.'
- And having called near the multitude, he said to them, `Hear and understand:
- not that which is coming into the mouth doth defile the man, but that which is coming forth from the mouth, this defileth the man.'
- Then his disciples having come near, said to him, `Hast thou known that the Pharisees, having heard the word, were stumbled?'
- And he answering said, `Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant shall be rooted up;
- let them alone, guides they are -- blind of blind; and if blind may guide blind, both into a ditch shall fall.'
- And Peter answering said to him, `Explain to us this simile.'
- And Jesus said, `Are ye also yet without understanding?
- do ye not understand that all that is going into the mouth doth pass into the belly, and into the drain is cast forth?
- but the things coming forth from the mouth from the heart do come forth, and these defile the man;
- for out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, whoredoms, thefts, false witnessings, evil speakings:
- these are the things defiling the man; but to eat with unwashen hands doth not defile the man.'
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