Matthew 15:1-11:
15:1Then Pharisees and scribes come-towards Jesus from Jerusalem saying, .2”Because-of-what do your learning-disciples step-aside-from the tradition of the elders? – for they do not wash the hands whenever they may eat bread.” .3But the (one) having answered said to them, “Because-of-what do you also step-aside-from the commandment of God because-of your tradition? – .4for God said, ‘You must honor the father and the mother,’ and, ‘The (person) speaking-badly-of father or mother must complete (his life) with death.’ .5But you say, ‘He-who ever may say to the father or to the mother, ‘(It is) a free-gift, that-which if-ever you may be profited from me,’ .6he will never honor his father,’ and you unconfirm the word of God because-of your tradition. .7Hypocrites, Isaiah prophesied beautifully concerning you saying, .8‘This people honor Me with the lips but their heart has far away from Me. .9But futilely they reverence Me teaching teachings (which are) commandments of men.’” .10And having called the crowd towards-himself he said to them, “You must hear and understand: .11not the-thing going into the mouth makes the man common but the-thing journeying out-from the mouth this makes the man common.”
At that time Pharisees and scribes from Jerusalem (the ‘headquarters’ regarding their teachings, authority, etc, where the temple was located) were coming towards Jesus saying, “Because-of-what (why, by means of what reason, on what account) do your students step-aside-from the tradition of the elders (willfully transgress the tradition belonging-to and issuing-from the elder-men, referring to those having more knowledge, wisdom, dignity, etc, elders in service, not the literal meaning of being older in age than other people). In truth, your learning-disciples do not wash their hands at whatever time they would eat bread (referring here to any kind of food).”
Traditions are those-things that are given-along or delivered-over from one to another, passing them from one-person to beside or alongside another from generation to generation which eventually come to be considered as an authority, "the way we've always done it", and so these traditions become thought of by people as being "the right-way to do it".
But Jesus answered by saying to them, “Because-of-what (why, by means of what reason, on what account) emphatically do you in-addition step-aside from the commandment of God (willfully transgress the thing enjoined or commanded by God, God’s commandment) on account of your tradition?
In truth, God said:
But you scribes and Pharisees say:
…and you unconfirm the word of God (you invalidate, make unauthentic, deprive of lordly/masterly authority the spoken-account of God, what God commanded as part of the law given to Moses) on account of your tradition.” They taught that if a child of his parents dedicated the items, which he would have given his aging parents to support and help them materially and financially, to God making these items a “free-gift,” then that child should not give this “free-gift” to his father or mother because it now belongs to God and the child should eventually give these items to the temple. They taught that people could exchange doing what their tradition stipulated in the place of what God said!
“Hypocrites….” Hypocrites are those who answer in reply in pretense as if wearing a mask playing a part on a stage, feigning to be what they are not, to be what others think they are or want them to be, who judge from underneath the truth and so deliberately misrepresent themselves and the truth of God's Word.
“Hypocrites, Isaiah prophesied beautifully concerning you (Isaiah spoke-forth God's words being revealed to him with a manifested decorous, harmonious and acceptable goodness) saying, ‘This people honor Me with the lips but their heart has (holds itself) far away from Me. But futilely they reverence Me (uselessly, meaninglessly, in a manner that is empty as to results they treat Me with reverential respect) teaching teachings which are commandments of men (instructions, doctrines which are commandments issuing-from men, not from God).’”
And having called the crowd towards himself Jesus said to them, “You must hear and understand (listen and gain insight, put the information together in your minds to the end of gaining insight into what you hear me speak to you): not the-thing going into the mouth (referring to food) makes the man common (in the Levitical sense of causing him to become defiled, ceremonially unlawful and unclean), but on the contrary, the-thing journeying (passing) out-from the mouth (here referring to the teachings of men) this makes the man common.”
[Reference: Exodus 20:12, 21:17; Leviticus 20:9; Deuteronomy 5:16, 27:16; Proverbs 28:24, 30:17; Isaiah 29:13; Mark 7:1-16; Ephesians 6:2.]
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