Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said,
Matthew 15:1. Then scribes and Pharisees. As the fault that is here corrected is not only common but highly dangerous, the passage is particularly worthy of our attention. We see the extraordinary insolence that is displayed by men as to the form and manner of worshipping God; for they are perpetually contriving new modes of worship, and when any one wishes to be thought wiser...
Evil manners, we say, beget good laws. The intemperate heat of the Jewish teachers for the support of their hierarchy, occasioned many excellent discourses of our Saviour's for the settling of the truth, as here. I. Here, is the cavil of the scribes and Pharisees at Christ's disciples, for eating with unwashen hands.
Commenting on Matthew 15:1-9
MATTHEW CHAPTER 15 Verse 1. See also . Then came to Jesus, etc. Mark says, that they saw the disciples of Jesus eating with hands unwashed. (a) "Then came"