Matthew 15:2 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

² “Why do your disciples violate the tradition of the [Jewish] elders? For they do not [ceremonially] wash their hands before eating [their meals].”

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Why do Your disciples transgress and violate the rules handed down by the elders of the past? For they do not practice [ceremonially] washing their hands before they eat.

American Standard Version (1901)

² Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.

Common English Bible

² “Why are your disciples breaking the elders’ rules handed down to us? They don’t ritually purify their hands by washing before they eat.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

² "Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the ancients? For they wash not their hands when they eat bread.

Matthew 15:2 Cross References

Matthew 15:3

And He answered them, “Why do you also violate the commandments of God by [following] your traditions?

Mark 7:2

They had observed some of His disciples eating their food with contaminated, that is, [ceremonially] unwashed hands.

Mark 7:5

The Pharisees and experts in the Law of Moses asked Jesus, “Why do your disciples not live according to the traditions of the Jewish elders, but [instead] eat their food with contaminated [i.e., ceremonially unwashed] hands?”

Luke 11:38

And when the Pharisee observed this, he was surprised that Jesus had not first washed himself ceremonially before the meal.

Galatians 1:14

I advanced in the Jewish religion beyond many of my contemporaries among my countrymen. I have been extremely more zealous in advocating the traditions [taught] by my forefathers.

Colossians 2:8

Pay attention so that no one takes you [spiritually] captive through his philosophy and empty deception based on human tradition, according to the principles of the world and not according to Christ.

1 Peter 1:18

You [should] know that you were bought back [from Satan], from your useless way of life, inherited from your forefathers, not with such perishable things as silver and gold,