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Matthew 15:3–13

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3So he answered and* said to them, “Why do you also break the commandment of God because of your tradition? 4For God said, ‘Honor your* father and your* mother,’b and ‘The one who speaks evil of father or mother must certainly diec.’d 5But you say, ‘Whoever says to his* father or his* mother, “Whatever benefit you would have receivede from me is a gift to God,” 6need not honor his father,’f and you make void the word of God for the sake of your tradition. 7Hypocrites! Isaiah correctly prophesied about you saying,

8‘This people honors me with their* lips,

but their heart is far, far away from me,

9and they worship me in vain,

teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ ”g

Defilement from Within

10And summoning the crowd, he said to them, “Hear and understand: 11It is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth—this defiles a person.” 12Then the disciples came and* said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they* heard this saying?” 13And he answered and* said, “Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant will be uprooted.

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Footnotes

  1. *Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“answered”) has been translated as a finite verb
  2. *Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
  3. *Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
  4. bA quotation from Exod 20:12; Deut 5:16
  5. cLiterally “let him die the death”
  6. dA quotation from Exod 21:17; Lev 20:9
  7. *Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
  8. *Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
  9. eLiterally “you would have been benefited”
  10. fMost later manuscripts add “or his mother”
  11. *Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
  12. gA quotation from Isa 29:13
  13. *Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“came”) has been translated as a finite verb
  14. *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“heard”) which is understood as temporal
  15. *Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“answered”) has been translated as a finite verb

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