Quotes About Tradition

“Teacher,” they said, “Moses declared that if a man dies without having children, his brother is to marry the widow and raise up offspring for him.

Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died without having children. So he left his wife to his brother.

The same thing happened to the second and third brothers, down to the seventh.

“The scribes and Pharisees sit in Mosesí seat.

All their deeds are done for men to see. They broaden their phylacteries and lengthen their tassels.

the greetings in the marketplaces, and the title of ëRabbií by which they are addressed.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous.

On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?”

He answered, “Go into the city to a certain man and tell him that the Teacher says, ëMy time is near. I will keep the Passover with My disciples at your house.í”

So the disciples did as Jesus had directed them and prepared the Passover.

Now it was the governorís custom at the feast to release to the crowd a prisoner of their choosing.

Now Johnís disciples and the Pharisees were often fasting. So people came to Jesus and asked, “Why donít Your disciples fast like Johnís disciples and those of the Pharisees?”

No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the new piece will pull away from the old, and a worse tear will result.

And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. Instead, new wine is poured into new wineskins.”

One Sabbath Jesus was passing through the grainfields, and His disciples began to pick the heads of grain as they walked along.

So the Pharisees said to Him, “Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?”

Therefore, the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”

Then the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus,

and they saw some of His disciples eating with hands that were defiled—that is, unwashed.

Now in holding to the tradition of the elders, the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat until they wash their hands ceremonially.

And on returning from the market, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other traditions for them to observe, including the washing of cups, pitchers, kettles, and couches for dining.

So the Pharisees and scribes questioned Jesus: “Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders? Instead, they eat with defiled hands.”

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

You have disregarded the commandment of God to keep the tradition of men.”