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1 aThen some Pharisees and scribes * came to Jesus bfrom Jerusalem and said,
2 “Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they ado not wash their hands when they eat bread.”
3 And He answered and said to them, “Why do you yourselves transgress the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?
4 “For God said, ‘aHonor your father and mother,’ and, ‘bHe who speaks evil of father or mother is to 1be put to death.’
5 “But you say, ‘Whoever says to his father or mother, “Whatever I have that would help you has been 1given to God,”
6 he is not to honor his father or his mother1.’ And by this you invalidated the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
7 “You hypocrites, rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you:
8 ‘aThis people honors Me with their lips,
But their heart is far away from Me.
9 ‘But in vain do they worship Me,
Teaching as adoctrines the precepts of men.’ ”
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* | A star (*) is used to mark verbs that are historical presents in the Greek which have been translated with an English past tense in order to conform to modern usage. The translators recognized that in some contexts the present tense seems more unexpected and unjustified to the English reader than a past tense would have been. But Greek authors frequently used the present tense for the sake of heightened vividness, thereby transporting their readers in imagination to the actual scene at the time of occurence. However, the translators felt that it would be wise to change these historical presents to English past tenses. |
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1 | Lit die the death |
1 | Lit a gift; i.e. an offering |
1 | I.e. by supporting them with it |
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