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But you say, ‘If any one tells his father or his mother, What you would have gained from me is given to God,[a] he need not honor his father.’[b] So, for the sake of your tradition, you have made void the word[c] of God. You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said:

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 15:5 Or an offering
  2. 15.5 By dedicating his property to God, i.e., to the temple, a man could avoid having to help his parents, without actually giving up what he had. The scribes held such a vow to be valid without necessarily approving it.
  3. Matthew 15:6 Other ancient authorities read law

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