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The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why don`t your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?"
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Human Rules vs. God's Word
Commentators explain that the Pharisees' question sets up the central conflict of this passage. They accused Jesus's disciples of violating the "tradition of the elders," a set of man-made rules that they treated as an authoritative guide for life, sometimes even elevating them above God's actual commandments.
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19th Century
Anglican
With unwashen hands.—The better manuscripts give, “with defiled hands,” the word being the same as before. It was probab…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Then the Pharisees and Scribes asked him Not the disciples, but Christ himself; for their chief view was to find fau…
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