Matthew 23:25 Cross References - Mace

²⁵ wo unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; for ye clean the outside of the cup, and of the plate, but within they are full of rapine and impurity.

¹⁹ out of the heart proceed evil designs, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimony, slanders. ²⁰ these are the things which defile a man: but to eat without washing one's hands, that does not defile a man.

⁴ nay, when they have been at any publick place, they never eat till they have washed. they observe besides several traditions, such as the washing of cups, pots, brass vessels, and beds. ⁵ the Pharisees, and Scribes therefore ask'd Jesus, why don't your disciples observe the tradition of the antients? why do they take their meals without washing their hands? ⁶ Jesus answered, to such hypocrites as you may well be applied those words of the prophet Esaias, "this people honour me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. ⁷ in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the institutions of men." ⁸ for laying aside what is of divine appointment, you stick to their human traditions, about the washing of pots, and cups, and many other the like practices. ⁹ You are in the right, said he, to abolish the laws of God, to make way for such traditions. ¹⁰ Moses said, "honour thy father and thy mother;" and, if any one speak contemptibly of his father, or his mother, let him be put to death. ¹¹ but your doctrine is this, if any one shall tell his father or his mother, that what he could bestow for their relief, is corban, that is, to be given to the temple; ¹² you discharge him from the obligation of doing any thing for his father or his mother. ¹³ by such traditions, and such a number of practices, as you have settled, the word of God is stript of all its authority.

³⁹ upon which the Lord said to him, you Pharisees won't leave any filth upon the outside of a cup or a platter: while your consciences are abandon'd to rapine, and sensuality. ⁴⁰ do you stupidly imagine that he, who made the outward man, did not make the inward too?