Matthew 15:2 - English Majority Text Version 2009

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

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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

He answered and said to them, "Why do you also transgress the commandment of God on account of your tradition?

Mark 7:2

Now when they saw some of His disciples eat bread with ceremonially unclean, that is, with unwashed [hands], they found fault.

Mark 7:5

Then the Pharisees and scribes asked Him, "Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but they eat bread with unwashed hands?"

Luke 11:38

And when the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that He had not first washed before the meal.

Galatians 1:14

And I was advancing in Judaism above many my own age, being far more zealous for the traditions of my forefathers.

Colossians 2:8

Beware lest anyone captures you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.

1 Peter 1:18

knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your futile way of life handed down from your forefathers,