Notes on the "tradition of the elders"

The "tradition of the elders" was the rules and regulation created by the Jewish rabbis from the time of the fall of Jerusalem and the Babylonian captivity. Early in the third century these traditions were codified into the Mishnah.

Mathew Chapter 15 - Full Text

Mark Chapter 7 - Full Text

References in Scripture

2 Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.

Mark 7:3

3 For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.

Mark 7:5

5 Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?

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