Matthew 15

Matthew 15:4

:TEXT: “For God said, ‘Honor [your] father and [your] mother’”

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ASV NASV NIV NEB TEV RANK: CNOTES: “For God commanded, saying, ‘Honor [your] father and [your] mother’”

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KJV RSV (omit “saying”): The word “commanded” was probably added due to the word “commandment” in verse Matthew 15:3. Although Mark 7:10 has simply “said,” it reads “Moses said.” Thus it is not likely that “commanded, saying” was changed to “said” to make Matthew read like Mark.

Matthew 15:6

:TEXT: “plyou have made void the word of God”

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ASV RSV NASV NIV RANK: BNOTES: “plyou have made void the law of God”

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ASVn RSVn NASVn : “plyou have made void the commandment of God”

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KJV TEV

The word “commandment” seems to have been introduced from verse Matthew 15:3. While it can be argued that “word” was introduced by copyists from the parallel passage in Mark 7:13, that reading is found in several types of ancient text. It has been suggested that the reading “law” was added because Jesus referred to one specific law.

Matthew 15:14

:TEXT: “they are blind leaders of the blind”

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KJV NASV NIVn NEBn TEV RANK: CNOTES: “they are blind leaders”

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ASV RSV NASVn NIV : “they are leaders of the blind”

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The word translated “of the blind” is in brackets in the UBS text, because it is missing from early manuscripts of two kinds of ancient text. However, it is possible that copyists’ eyes jumped from “blind” in this sentence to the first word of the next sentence, which is also “blind” in the Greek text.