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Matthew 15:2 KJV
Matthew · chapter 15 · verse 2
Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.Matthew 15:2 · King James Version
Matthew 15:2 in context
1Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying,
2Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
3But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?
4For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- transgressparabainōto go by the side of, to go past or pass over without touching a thing, to overstep…G3845 →
- disciplesmathētēsa learner, pupil, discipleG3101 →
- traditionparadosisgiving up, giving over, the act of giving up, the surrender of cities, a giving over…G3862 →
- elderspresbyteroselder, of age,, the elder of two people, advanced in life, an elder, a senior…G4245 →
- handscheirby the help or agency of any one, by means of any one, fig. applied to God symbolising…G5495 →
- washniptōto wash, to wash one's selfG3538 →
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Evil manners, we say, beget good laws. The intemperate heat of the Jewish teachers for the support of their hierarchy, occasioned many excellent discourses of our Saviour's for the settling of the truth, as here. I. Here, is the cavil of the scribes and Pharisees at Christ's disciples, for eating with unwashen hands.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-9