Das Leben Jesu
Jesus on Impurity and the Condition of the Heart
Pharisees and scribes from Jerusalem confront Jesus, saying that his disciples do not wash their hands before eating. Jesus replies that they themselves nullify God's command for the sake of their own traditions, and calls them hypocrites, quoting Isaiah. He explains to the crowd and the disciples that it is not what enters the mouth that makes a person unclean, but what comes out of the mouth and originates from the heart—evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and blasphemy.
Matthäus 15,1-20
1Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and asked,
Τότε προσέρχονται τῷ ⸀Ἰησοῦ ἀπὸ Ἱεροσολύμων ⸂Φαρισαῖοι καὶ γραμματεῖς⸃ λέγοντες
2"Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat."
Διὰ τί οἱ μαθηταί σου παραβαίνουσιν τὴν παράδοσιν τῶν πρεσβυτέρων; οὐ γὰρ νίπτονται τὰς χεῖρας ⸀αὐτῶν ὅταν ἄρτον ἐσθίωσιν.
3He answered them, "And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?
ὁ δὲ ἀποκριθεὶς εἶπεν αὐτοῖς· Διὰ τί καὶ ὑμεῖς παραβαίνετε τὴν ἐντολὴν τοῦ θεοῦ διὰ τὴν παράδοσιν ὑμῶν;
4For God said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'Whoever curses father or mother must be put to death.'
ὁ γὰρ θεὸς ⸀εἶπεν· Τίμα τὸν πατέρα καὶ τὴν μητέρα, καί· Ὁ κακολογῶν πατέρα ἢ μητέρα θανάτῳ τελευτάτω·
5But you say that if anyone tells his father or mother, 'Whatever help you might have had from me is an offering to God,'
ὑμεῖς δὲ λέγετε· Ὃς ἂν εἴπῃ τῷ πατρὶ ἢ τῇ μητρί· Δῶρον ὃ ἐὰν ἐξ ἐμοῦ ὠφεληθῇς,
6he need not honor his father. So you have nullified the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
⸀οὐ μὴ ⸀τιμήσει τὸν πατέρα ⸀αὐτοῦ· καὶ ἠκυρώσατε ⸂τὸν λόγον⸃ τοῦ θεοῦ διὰ τὴν παράδοσιν ὑμῶν.
7You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied about you rightly when he said:
ὑποκριταί, καλῶς ἐπροφήτευσεν περὶ ὑμῶν Ἠσαΐας λέγων·
8'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me;
⸂Ὁ λαὸς οὗτος⸃ τοῖς χείλεσίν με τιμᾷ, ἡ δὲ καρδία αὐτῶν πόρρω ἀπέχει ἀπʼ ἐμοῦ·
9they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrine the commandments of men.'"
μάτην δὲ σέβονταί με, διδάσκοντες διδασκαλίας ἐντάλματα ἀνθρώπων.
10Then he called the crowd to him and said, "Listen and understand:
Καὶ προσκαλεσάμενος τὸν ὄχλον εἶπεν αὐτοῖς· Ἀκούετε καὶ συνίετε·
11it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth—that is what defiles a person."
οὐ τὸ εἰσερχόμενον εἰς τὸ στόμα κοινοῖ τὸν ἄνθρωπον, ἀλλὰ τὸ ἐκπορευόμενον ἐκ τοῦ στόματος τοῦτο κοινοῖ τὸν ἄνθρωπον.
12Then the disciples came and said to him, "Do you realize that the Pharisees took offense when they heard this?"
Τότε προσελθόντες οἱ ⸀μαθηταὶ ⸀λέγουσιν αὐτῷ· Οἶδας ὅτι οἱ Φαρισαῖοι ἀκούσαντες τὸν λόγον ἐσκανδαλίσθησαν;
13He answered, "Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots.
ὁ δὲ ἀποκριθεὶς εἶπεν· Πᾶσα φυτεία ἣν οὐκ ἐφύτευσεν ὁ πατήρ μου ὁ οὐράνιος ἐκριζωθήσεται.
14Leave them alone. They are blind guides leading the blind, and if one blind man leads another, both will fall into a pit."
ἄφετε αὐτούς· ⸂τυφλοί εἰσιν ὁδηγοὶ τυφλῶν⸃· τυφλὸς δὲ τυφλὸν ἐὰν ὁδηγῇ, ἀμφότεροι εἰς βόθυνον πεσοῦνται.
15Peter said to him, "Explain this parable to us."
Ἀποκριθεὶς δὲ ὁ Πέτρος εἶπεν αὐτῷ· Φράσον ἡμῖν τὴν παραβολὴν ⸀ταύτην.
16Jesus said, "Are you also still without understanding?"
ὁ ⸀δὲ εἶπεν· Ἀκμὴν καὶ ὑμεῖς ἀσύνετοί ἐστε;
17"Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is then expelled?
⸀οὐ νοεῖτε ὅτι πᾶν τὸ εἰσπορευόμενον εἰς τὸ στόμα εἰς τὴν κοιλίαν χωρεῖ καὶ εἰς ἀφεδρῶνα ἐκβάλλεται;
18But what comes out of the mouth comes from the heart, and that is what defiles a person.
τὰ δὲ ἐκπορευόμενα ἐκ τοῦ στόματος ἐκ τῆς καρδίας ἐξέρχεται, κἀκεῖνα κοινοῖ τὸν ἄνθρωπον.
19For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
ἐκ γὰρ τῆς καρδίας ἐξέρχονται διαλογισμοὶ πονηροί, φόνοι, μοιχεῖαι, πορνεῖαι, κλοπαί, ψευδομαρτυρίαι, βλασφημίαι.
20These are what defile a person; but eating with unwashed hands does not defile anyone."
ταῦτά ἐστιν τὰ κοινοῦντα τὸν ἄνθρωπον, τὸ δὲ ἀνίπτοις χερσὶν φαγεῖν οὐ κοινοῖ τὸν ἄνθρωπον.