Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said,
Men cannot bear to obey God's plain command, yet they eagerly bind themselves with invented traditions. When leaders assume authority to issue commands beyond Scripture, they demand rigid adherence and build tyranny. The worship of God is corrupted; His word is displaced by human authority.
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These men from Jerusalem, who should have been better, were worse. They accused Christ's disciples of breaking tradition by eating with unwashed hands, a decent custom the Pharisees had turned into a religious duty. That this was the worst charge they could bring shows how inoffensively His disciples lived.
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Commenting on Matthew 15:1-9
MATTHEW CHAPTER 15 Verse 1. See also . Then came to Jesus, etc. Mark says, that they saw the disciples of Jesus eating with hands unwashed. (a) "Then came"