Matthew 15:2

Matthew chapter 15 · verse 2 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.

Context

v.1Then there come to Jesus from Jerusalem Pharisees and scribes, saying,

v.2This passage

v.3And he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition?

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 1 Peter 1:18

    knowing that ye were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers;

  • Luke 11:38

    And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first bathed himself before dinner.

  • Mark 7:2

    and had seen that some of his disciples ate their bread with defiled, that is, unwashen, hands.

  • Colossians 2:8

    Take heed lest there shall be any one that maketh spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ:

  • Mark 7:5

    And the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with defiled hands?

  • Colossians 2:20

    If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances,