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Podcast: BIBLE IN TEN
Episode: Matthew 15:2
Description: Thursday, 11 December 2025
“Why do Your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.” Matthew 15:2
“Through what – Your disciples, they sidestep the tradition of the elders? For they wash not their hands when they may eat bread” (CG).
In the previous verse, Chapter 15 began with the scribes and Pharisees from Jerusalem coming to Jesus. Matthew next records the question they asked Him, “Through what – Your disciples, they sidestep the tradition of the elders?”
Two new words are seen here. The f...