Quotes About Tradition

by asking the priests of the house of the LORD of Hosts, as well as the prophets, “Should I weep and fast in the fifth month, as I have done these many years?”

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Old men and old women will again sit along the streets of Jerusalem, each with a staff in hand because of great age.

the clan of the house of Levi and their wives, the clan of Shimei and their wives,

Then the offerings of Judah and Jerusalem will please the LORD, as in days of old and years gone by.

Ram was the father of Amminadab, Amminadab the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon the father of Salmon.

Azor was the father of Zadok, Zadok the father of Achim, and Achim the father of Eliud.

Eliud was the father of Eleazar, Eleazar the father of Matthan, Matthan the father of Jacob,

John wore a garment of camelís hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.

At that time Johnís disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Why is it that we and the Pharisees fast so often, but Your disciples do not fast?”

No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. For the patch will pull away from the garment, and a worse tear will result.

Neither do men pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst, the wine will spill, and the wineskins will be ruined. Instead, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.”

At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat them.

When the Pharisees saw this, they said to Him, “Look, Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath.”

Or havenít you read in the Law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple break the Sabbath and yet are innocent?

Then some Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and asked,

“Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands before they eat.”

Jesus replied, “And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition?

For God said, ëHonor your father and motherí and ëAnyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.í

But you say that if anyone says to his father or mother, ëWhatever you would have received from me is a gift devoted to God,í

he need not honor his father or mother with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.

They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.í”

These are what defile a man, but eating with unwashed hands does not defile him.”

They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”

“Why then,” they asked, “did Moses order a man to give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?”