Bible Word Study

Τότε προσέρχονται τῷ Ἰησοῦ ἀπὸ Ἱεροσολύμων Φαρισαῖοι καὶ γραμματεῖς λέγοντες·

NET2 Then Pharisees and experts in the law came from Jerusalem to Jesus and said,

διὰ τί οἱ μαθηταί σου παραβαίνουσιν τὴν παράδοσιν τῶν πρεσβυτέρων; οὐ γὰρ νίπτονται τὰς χεῖρας ὅταν ἄρτον ἐσθίωσιν.

NET2 “Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat.”

ὁ δὲ ἀποκριθεὶς εἶπεν αὐτοῖς· διὰ τί καὶ ὑμεῖς παραβαίνετε τὴν ἐντολὴν τοῦ θεοῦ διὰ τὴν παράδοσιν ὑμῶν;

NET2 He answered them, “And why do you disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?

ὁ γὰρ θεὸς εἶπεν· τίμα τὸν πατέρα καὶ τὴν μητέρα, καί· ὁ κακολογῶν πατέρα ἢ μητέρα θανάτῳ τελευτάτω.

NET2 For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.’

ὑμεῖς δὲ λέγετε· ὃς ἂν εἴπῃ τῷ πατρὶ ἢ τῇ μητρί· δῶρον ὃ ἐὰν ἐξ ἐμοῦ ὠφεληθῇς,

NET2 But you say, ‘If someone tells his father or mother, “Whatever help you would have received from me is given to God,”

οὐ μὴ τιμήσει τὸν πατέρα αὐτοῦ· καὶ ἠκυρώσατε τὸν λόγον τοῦ θεοῦ διὰ τὴν παράδοσιν ὑμῶν.

NET2 he does not need to honor his father.’ You have nullified the word of God on account of your tradition.

ὑποκριταί, καλῶς ἐπροφήτευσεν περὶ ὑμῶν Ἠσαΐας λέγων·

NET2 Hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you when he said,

ὁ λαὸς οὗτος τοῖς χείλεσιν με τιμᾷ, ἡ δὲ καρδία αὐτῶν πόρρω ἀπέχει ἀπ᾿ ἐμοῦ·

NET2 “‘This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me,

μάτην δὲ σέβονται με διδάσκοντες διδασκαλίας ἐντάλματα ἀνθρώπων.

NET2 and they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”

καὶ προσκαλεσάμενος τὸν ὄχλον εἶπεν αὐτοῖς· ἀκούετε καὶ συνίετε·

NET2 Then he called the crowd to him and said, “Listen and understand.

οὐ τὸ εἰσερχόμενον εἰς τὸ στόμα κοινοῖ τὸν ἄνθρωπον, ἀλλὰ τὸ ἐκπορευόμενον ἐκ τοῦ στόματος τοῦτο κοινοῖ τὸν ἄνθρωπον.

NET2 What defiles a person is not what goes into the mouth; it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles a person.”

Τότε προσελθόντες οἱ μαθηταὶ λέγουσιν αὐτῷ· οἶδας ὅτι οἱ Φαρισαῖοι ἀκούσαντες τὸν λόγον ἐσκανδαλίσθησαν;

NET2 Then the disciples came to him and said, “Do you know that when the Pharisees heard this saying they were offended?”

ὁ δὲ ἀποκριθεὶς εἶπεν· πᾶσα φυτεία ἣν οὐκ ἐφύτευσεν ὁ πατήρ μου ὁ οὐράνιος ἐκριζωθήσεται.

NET2 And he replied, “Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant will be uprooted.

ἄφετε αὐτούς· τυφλοί εἰσιν ὁδηγοί· τυφλὸς δὲ τυφλὸν ἐὰν ὁδηγῇ, ἀμφότεροι εἰς βόθυνον πεσοῦνται.

NET2 Leave them! They are blind guides. If someone who is blind leads another who is blind, both will fall into a pit.”

Ἀποκριθεὶς δὲ ὁ Πέτρος εἶπεν αὐτῷ· φράσον ἡμῖν τὴν παραβολὴν [ταύτην].

NET2 But Peter said to him, “Explain this parable to us.”

ὁ δὲ εἶπεν· ἀκμὴν καὶ ὑμεῖς ἀσύνετοι ἐστε;

NET2 Jesus said, “Even after all this, are you still so foolish?

οὐ νοεῖτε ὅτι πᾶν τὸ εἰσπορευόμενον εἰς τὸ στόμα εἰς τὴν κοιλίαν χωρεῖ καὶ εἰς ἀφεδρῶνα ἐκβάλλεται;

NET2 Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach and then passes out into the sewer?

τὰ δὲ ἐκπορευόμενα ἐκ τοῦ στόματος ἐκ τῆς καρδίας ἐξέρχεται, κακεῖνα κοινοῖ τὸν ἄνθρωπον.

NET2 But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these things defile a person.

ἐκ γὰρ τῆς καρδίας ἐξέρχονται διαλογισμοὶ πονηροί, φόνοι, μοιχεῖαι, πορνεῖαι, κλοπαί, ψευδομαρτυρίαι, βλασφημίαι.

NET2 For out of the heart come evil ideas, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.

ταῦτα ἐστιν τὰ κοινοῦντα τὸν ἄνθρωπον, τὸ δὲ ἀνίπτοις χερσὶν φαγεῖν οὐ κοινοῖ τὸν ἄνθρωπον.

NET2 These are the things that defile a person; it is not eating with unwashed hands that defiles a person.”