What does Matthew 15:2 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread."
Verse Matthew 15:2. _ELDERS_] Rulers and magistrates among the Jews. _FOR THEY WASH NOT THEIR HANDS_] What frivolous nonsense! These Pharisees had nothing which their malice could fasten on in the co...
See also Mark 7:1. THEN CAME TO JESUS ... - Mark says that they saw the disciples of Jesus eating with unwashed hands. Matthew 15:2 TRANSGRESS THE TRADITION OF THE ELDERS - The world “elders” liter...
3. THE CORRUPTION OF THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES; THE CANAANITISH WOMAN AND HER FAITH; THE MULTITUDES HEALED. CHAPTER 15 _ 1. The Question of the Scribes and Pharisees.(Matthew 15:1 .) 2. His Answer....
THE WASHING OF HANDS AND THE TRADITIONS OF THE ELDERS (Mark 7:1 *). Mt. is again briefer than Mk. He omits the parenthetical explanation Mark 7:3 f. and the technical term Corban, turns the statement...
Then the Pharisees and Scribes from Jerusalem approached Jesus. "Why," they said, "do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? They do so transgress, because they do not wash their hands...
TRANSGRESS. Greek. _parabaino._ App-128. THE ELDERS. Greek. _presbuteroi._ Always used in the Papyri officially, not of age (old men), but of communal officers and heathen priests. WASH NOT. To wash...
Matthew 15:1-20. The True Religion and the False. A Discourse to the Pharisees, the People, and the Disciples Mark 7:1-23 These twenty verses sum up the great controversy of the N. T., that between...
THE TRUE RELIGION AND THE FALSE. A DISCOURSE TO THE PHARISEES, THE PEOPLE, AND THE DISCIPLES Mark 7:1-23 These twenty verses sum up the great controversy of the N.T., that between the religion of th...
VER 1. THEN CAME TO JESUS SCRIBES AND PHARISEES, WHICH WERE OF JERUSALEM, SAYING, 2. "WHY DO THY DISCIPLES TRANSGRESS THE TRADITION OF THE ELDERS? FOR THEY WASH NOT THEIR HANDS WHEN THEY EAT BREAD." 3...
_A CHANGE OF HEART IS NEEDED MATTHEW 15:1-20:_ Through traditions the Pharisees were transgressing God's law. They were beautiful on the outside but they needed a change of heart on the inside. (Matth...
ΠΑΡΑΒΑΊΝΟΥΣΙΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΠΑΡΑΒΑΊΝΩ (G3845) преступать. _Praes._ указывает на постоянную или привычную практику, ΠΑΡΆΔΟΣΙΣ (G3862) предание. Совокупность комментариев, дополняющих закон, ко...
THEN CAME TO JESUS, &C.— The law of Moses required external cleanness as a part of religion: not however for its own sake, but to signify with what carefulness God's servants should purify their minds...
SECTION 36 JESUS DEBATES WITH JERUSALEM PHARISEES ABOUT THE ELDERS-' TRADITIONS (Parallel: Mark 7:1-23) TEXT: 15:1-20 1 Then there come to Jesus from Jerusalem Pharisees and scribes, saying, 2 Why...
Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread. WHY DO THY DISCIPLES TRANSGRESS THE TRADITION OF THE ELDERS? FOR THEY WASH NOT THEIR...
32 Peter here symbolizes the sovereignty of Israel over the turbulent gentiles in the time to come. They are made afraid by the spiritual power of evil, typified by the wind. Peter's cry will be their...
15:2 ancients? (d-12) Or 'the tradition of the elders.'...
THE TRADITIONS OF THE ELDERS. THE CANAANITISH WOMAN. FEEDING THE FOUR THOUSAND 1-20. Unwashed hands and the traditions of the elders (Mark 7:1). In this important controversy Jesus defined His positio...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 15 The three sections of chapter 15 show Jesus’ attitude to people who were not *Jews. He wanted them to be happy with the good news...
THEY WASH NOT THEIR HANDS WHEN THEY EAT BREAD. — St. Mark (Mark 7:3), writing for Gentiles, explains the nature of the tradition more fully. What the Pharisees insisted on was not cleanliness as such,...
CHAPTER 12 The Crisis in Galilee Matthew 14:1 - Matthew 15:1 - Matthew 16:1. THE lives of John and of Jesus, lived so far apart, and with so little intercommunication, have yet been interwoven in a...
_Washing of hands_ (Mark 7:1-23)....
GOD'S TRUTH ABOVE MEN'S TEACHING Matthew 15:1-9 The legal washing of hands before eating was especially sacred in the eyes of the Pharisees. “He who does not wash His hands before eating,” says the...
The question was not of cleanliness, but of ritual. This washing of hands to remove imaginary evil was a part of the tradition of the elders. Against the binding of such burdens on men our Lord passio...
Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they (a) wash not their hands when they eat bread. (a) Which they received handed down from their ancestors, or their elders allowed,...
Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition. The Pharisees had various traditions delivered down from their ancestors, called Greek: deuterseis, of which some were works of supererogation, others we...
CHAPTER 34 BAPTIZE NOT ALWAYS A TOTAL SUBMERSION Matthew 15:1-2; Mark 7:1-6. _“And the Pharisees and certain ones, the scribes, having come from Jerusalem, are assembled before Him. And seeing certai...
"Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying, (2) Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread. (3) But...
Chapter 8, which opens the portion that comes before us tonight, is a striking illustration as well as proof of the method which God has been pleased to employ in giving us the apostle Matthew's accou...
2._Why do thy disciples transgress? _When we speak of human traditions, this question has no reference to political laws, the use and object of which are widely different from enjoining the manner in...
chapter 15 displays man and God, the moral contrast between the doctrine of Christ and that of the Jews; and thus the Jewish system is rejected morally by God. When I speak of the system, I speak of t...
WHY DO THY DISCIPLES TRANSGRESS THE TRADITION OF THE ELDERS?.... Having observed, for some little time, the conduct of Christ and his disciples, they thought proper to take no notice of him as yet, bu...
Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread. Ver. 2. _Transgress the tradition of the elders_] They cried up aloud traditions and th...
_Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees_ See notes on Mark 7:1, where the facts here spoken of are related more at large. _Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders_ That is, of th...
TRADITION; traditions were laws or precepts of men, which they said had been handed down by word of mouth from past generations, and many of which were afterwards written. They were often treated as o...
A LESSON CONCERNING DEFILEMENT. The Pharisees voice an objection:...
After the power and grace of the Lord Jesus has wrought so great, refreshing blessing, the cold, barren criticism of scribes and Pharisees of Jerusalem is an example of how the deadening principle of...
1-9 Additions to God's laws reflect upon his wisdom, as if he had left out something which was needed, and which man could supply; in one way or other they always lead men to disobey God. How thankfu...
OLBGrk; Ver. 1,2. Mark relates this piece of history more largely, MARK 7:1, _Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain, of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem. And when they saw some...
Matthew 15:2 Why G1302 Your G4675 disciples G3101 transgress G3845 (G5719) tradition G3862 elders G4245 For G1063 not G3756 wash G3538 (G5731) their G846 hands G5495 when G3752 eat G2068 (G5725) bread...
THE CHALLENGE FROM JERUSALEM (15:1-9). In Chapter s 11-12, after the discourse in chapter 10, Matthew had begun by drawing attention to the imprisonment of John (Matthew 11:2), spoke of the opposition...
Only Matthew and Mark narrate the events recorded in this chapter. The discourse at Capernaum (John 6:22-71), respecting the manna from heaven, followed the feeding of the five thousand. The Passover,...
THE TRADITION OF THE ELDERS (την παραδοσιν των πρεσβυτερων). This was the oral law, handed down by the elders of the past in _ex cathedra_ fashion and later codified in the Mishna. Handwashing befor...
Matthew 15:1. _Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying, Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread...
CONTENTS: Scribes and Pharisees rebuked. Syrophonecian's daughter healed. The multitude healed. 4000 fed. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Peter, (disciples), Syrophonecian woman, her daughter. CONCLUSION: The Ch...
Matthew 15:2. _Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders?_ The cabala, or unwritten law, was counted by the pharisees of equal authority with the law itself. Rabbi Aquiba says, he wh...
WHY IS IT THAT YOUR DISCIPLES DISOBEY? Not God's Law, but the teaching handed down by the ancestors. These teachings formed an "unwritten law" which they followed carefully (_see_ Galatians 1:14), IN...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 15:2 TRADITION OF THE ELDERS. Interpretations of Scripture given by rabbis and handed down from previous generations. THEY DO NOT WASH THEIR HANDS. Priests were required to was...
JESUS TEACHES ABOUT INNER PURITY MATTHEW 15:1-20; MARK 7:1-23; MATTHEW 15:1 Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying, Mark 7:1 Then came together unto him the Pharisee...
CHAPTER 15 _Then there came to Him_, &c. The Scribes of Jerusalem, as being at the very fountain head of faith and religion, arrogated to them selves the right of censuring the doctrine of new teache...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 15:1. OF JERUSALEM.—_From_ Jerusalem (see R.V.). Probably a deputation from the Sanhedrin sent expressly to watch Him. Matthew 15:2. TRANSGRESS THE TRADITION.—The Jews attach...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 15:1 _Discourse concerning ceremonial pollution. _(Mark 7:1.) MATTHEW 15:1 THEN. This is after the third Passover, which whether our Lord attended or not, has been a matter of s...
Then came to Jesus Scribes and Pharisees, which were from Jerusalem (Matthew 15:1), Hey, these guys had come a long way to challenge Him. They came all the way from Jerusalem clear up to Galilee, whi...
1 Peter 1:18; Colossians 2:20; Colossians 2:8; Genesis 1:14; Mark 7:2; Mark 7:5...
Wash not their hands. Washing before meals was along regarded as a commandment; washing after meals only as a duty. By and by the more rigorous actually washed between the courses, although this was d...
The elders — The chief doctors or, teachers among the Jews....