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Matthew 15:3

Question Temple and Tradition

"And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition?"

— Matthew 15:3

Jesus confronting the Pharisees about their traditions

Book

Matthew

Chapter & Verses

Ch. 15, v.3

Matthew 12:11

"If any of you has a sheep and it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will you not take hold of it and lift it out?"

Matthew 14:31

"You of little faith, why did you doubt?"

Matthew 16:15

"But what about you? Who do you say I am?"

Same theme (Temple and Tradition) in other Gospels

Mark 9:11

"Why do the teachers of the law say that Elijah must come first?"

Mark 9:12

"To be sure, Elijah does come first, and restores all things. Why then is it written that the Son of Man must suffer much and be rejected?"

Mark 9:13

"But I tell you, Elijah has come, and they have done to him everything they wished, just as it is written about him."