Matthew 15:2 - Revised Standard Version CI

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

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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

Genesis 1:14

And God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to separate the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years,

Esther 3:3

Then the king's servants who were at the king's gate said to Mordecai, “Why do you transgress the king's command?”

Matthew 15:3

He answered them, “And why do you transgress the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?

Mark 7:2

they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands defiled, that is, unwashed.

Mark 7:5

And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with hands defiled?”

Luke 11:38

The Pharisee was astonished to see that he did not first wash before dinner.

Galatians 1:14

and I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people, so extremely zealous was I for the traditions of my fathers.

Colossians 2:8

See to it that no one makes a prey of you by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the universe, and not according to Christ.

1 Peter 1:18

You know that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your fathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold,