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The Traditions of the Pharisees
The Book of Jesus
Chapter Nine
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The Deaf Man is Healed
Jesus Cures the Crowds Near the Lake
The Second Miracle of the Loaves
The Pharisees Ask for a Sign
The Yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees
Cure of a Blind Man From Bethsaida
Jesus Acknowledges to be the Christ
Carrying Your Own Cross
The Traditions of the Pharisees
NARRATOR.
The Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem then came to Jesus and gathered around him. When they saw
some of his disciples eating with unclean hands, that is to say without first washing them, they found fault. For the Pharisees and the
Jews in general held fast to the tradition of the elders and wouldn't eat unless they first washed their arms right up to the elbow. Even
when they came back from the marketplace, they would not eat anything unless it was washed first. There were many other things that
they observed which had been handed down to them concerning the washing of cups, pots and bronze dishes. The Pharisees and the
Scribes asked him:
PHARISEES/SCRIBES.
Why do your disciples break away from the tradition of the elders and not follow them? Your disciples eat their food without washing
their hands.
JESUS.
Why do you also break away from the commandment of God by your tradition? How rightly Isaiah prophesied about you hypocrites!
As it is written:
'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. They worship me in vain because they teach the commandments
of men as doctrines.'
You put aside the commandment of God and cling to the tradition of men, such as washing pots, cups and many other things like
these things you do. How ingeniously you side step the commandment of God in order to preserve your own tradition. For God said
by Moses, 'Honor your father and your mother. Anyone who curses his father or his mother must be put to death.' But you say, 'If
anyone says to his father or mother, anything I have that might have been used to help you is Corban, that is an offering, dedicated to
God.' From that moment on he is forbidden to do anything for his mother or father, he has gotten rid of his obligation to them. By
your tradition that you have handed down, you have the made the word of God null and void. And there are many things you do like
this.
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