| DB1 | | The Tradition of the Elders Mt.15.1-20 | NEB Contents | notes| 15 | New English Bible (New Testament) | Passage | New Testament in Greek (UBS.Ed.26) |
| 15 1 | THEN JESUS WAS APPROACHED by a group of Pharisees and lawyers from Jerusalem, with the question: | The Tradition of the Elders Mt.15.1-20 (Capernaum) | Mk.7.1-23 | Τότε προσέρχονται τῷ Ἰησοῦ ἀπὸ Ἱεροσολύμων Φαρισαῖοι καὶ γραμματεῖς λέγοντες, |
| 2 | 'Why do your disciples break the old-established tradition? They do not wash their hands before meals.' | Διὰ τί οἱ μαθηταί σου παραβαίνουσιν τὴν παράδοσιν τῶν πρεσβυτέρων; οὐ γὰρ νίπτονται τὰς χεῖρας αὐτῶν ὁταν ἀρτον ἐσθίωσιν. | |
| 3 | He answered them: 'And what of you? Why do you break God's commandment in the interest of your tradition? | ὁ δὲ ἀποκριθεὶς εἶπεν αὐτοῖς, Διὰ τί καὶ ὑμεῖς παραβαίνετε τὴν ἐντολὴν τοῦ θεοῦ διὰ τὴν παράδοσιν ὑμῶν; | |
| 4 | For God said, "Honour your father and mother", and, "The man who curses his father or mother must suffer death." | - Honour your father and your mother Mt.15.4 | Ex.20.12 | Dt.5.16 | Ex.21.17 | ὁ γὰρ θεὸς εἶπεν, τίμα τὸν πατέρα καὶ τὴν μητέρα, καὶ ὁ κακολογῶν πατέρα ἢ μητέρα θανάτῳ τελευτάτω· |
| 5 | But you say, "If a man says to his father or mother, 'Anything of mine which might have been used for your benefit is set apart for God', then he must not honour his father or his mother." | ὑμεῖς δὲ λέγετε, Ὃς ἂν εἰπῃ τῷ πατρὶ ἢ τῇ μητρί, Δῶρον ὃ ἐὰν ἐξ ἐμοῦ ὠφεληθῇς, | |
| 6 | You have made God's law null and void out of respect for your tradition. | οὐ μὴ τιμήσει τὸν πατέρα αὐτοῦ· καὶ ἠκυρώσατε τὸν λόγον τοῦ θεοῦ διὰ τὴν παράδοσιν ὑμῶν. | |
| 7 | What hypocrisy! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you: | ὑποκριταί, καλῶς ἐπροφήτευσεν περὶ ὑμῶν Ἠσαΐας λέγων, | |
| 8 | "This people pays me lip-service, but their heart is far from me; | - This people honours me with their lips Mt.15.8-9 | Is.29.13 | Ὁ λαὸς οὗτος τοῖς χείλεσίν με τιμᾷ, ἡ δὲ καρδία αὐτῶν πόρρω ἀπέχει ἀπ' ἐμοῦ· |
| 9 | their worship of me is in vain, for they teach as doctrines the commandments of men." ' | μάτην δὲ σέβονταί με, διδάσκοντες διδασκαλίας ἐντάλματα ἀνθρώπων. | |
| 10 | He called the crowd and said to them, 'Listen to me, and understand this: | Καὶ προσκαλεσάμενος τὸν ὀχλον εἶπεν αὐτοῖς, Ἀκούετε καὶ συνίετε· | |
| 11 | a man is not defiled by what goes into his mouth, but by what comes out of it.' | οὐ τὸ εἰσερχόμενον εἰς τὸ στόμα κοινοῖ τὸν ἄνθρωπον, ἀλλὰ τὸ ἐκπορευόμενον ἐκ τοῦ στόματος τοῦτο κοινοῖ τὸν ἄνθρωπον. | |
| 12 | Then the disciples came to him and said, 'Do you know that the Pharisees have taken great offence at what you have been saying?' | Τότε προσελθόντες οἱ μαθηταὶ λέγουσιν αὐτῷ, Οἶδας ὅτι οἱ Φαρισαῖοι ἀκούσαντες τὸν λόγον ἐσκανδαλίσθησαν; | |
| 13 | His answer was: 'Any plant that is not of my heavenly Father's planting will be rooted up. | ὁ δὲ ἀποκριθεὶς εἶπεν, Πᾶσα φυτεία ἣν οὐκ ἐφύτευσεν ὁ πατήρ μου ὁ οὐράνιος ἐκριζωθήσεται. | |
| 14 | Leave them alone; they are blind guides, and if one blind man guides another they will both fall into the ditch.' | ἀφετε αὐτούς· τυφλοί εἰσιν ὁδηγοί τυφλῶν· τυφλὸς δὲ τυφλὸν ἐὰν ὁδηγῇ, ἀμφότεροι εἰς βόθυνον πεσοῦνται. | |
| 15 | Then Peter said, 'Tell us what that Pble means.' | Ἀποκριθεὶς δὲ ὁ Πέτρος εἶπεν αὐτῷ, Φράσον ἡμῖν τὴν παραβολήν ταύτην. | |
| 16 | Jesus answered, 'Are you still as dull as the rest? | ὁ δὲ εἶπεν, Ἀκμὴν καὶ ὑμεῖς ἀσύνετοί ἐστὲ; | |
| 17 | Do you not see that whatever goes in by the mouth passes into the stomach and so is discharged into the drain? | οὐ νοεῖτε ὅτι πᾶν τὸ εἰσπορευόμενον εἰς τὸ στόμα εἰς τὴν κοιλίαν χωρεῖ καὶ εἰς ἀφεδρῶνα ἐκβάλλεταὶ; | |
| 18 | But what comes out of the mouth has its origins in the heart; and that is what defiles a man. | τὰ δὲ ἐκπορευόμενα ἐκ τοῦ στόματος ἐκ τῆς καρδίας ἐξέρχεται, κἀκεῖνα κοινοῖ τὸν ἄνθρωπον. | |
| 19 | Wicked thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, perjury, slander - these all proceed from the heart; | ἐκ γὰρ τῆς καρδίας ἐξέρχονται διαλογισμοὶ πονηροί, φόνοι, μοιχεῖαι, πορνεῖαι, κλοπαί, ψευδομαρτυρίαι, βλασφημίαι. | |
| 20 | and these are the things that defile a man; but to eat without first washing his hands, that cannot defile him.' | ταῦτά ἐστιν τὰ κοινοῦντα τὸν ἄνθρωπον, τὸ δὲ ἀνίπτοις χερσὶν φαγεῖν οὐ κοινοῖ τὸν ἄνθρωπον. | |