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3But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?

Matthew 15:3

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Matthew Henry

(vv. 1-9)

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 . The scribes and Pharisees were the great men of the Jewish church, men whose gai...

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