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Breaking Human Traditions

15 Then Pharisees[a] and experts in the law[b] came from Jerusalem to Jesus and said,[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 15:1 sn See the note on Pharisees in 3:7.
  2. Matthew 15:1 tn Or “and the scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.
  3. Matthew 15:1 tn The participle λέγοντες (legontes) has been translated as a finite verb so that its telic (i.e., final or conclusive) force can be more easily detected: The Pharisees and legal experts came to Jesus in order to speak with him.