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(1) GEger 3:5-6c
(2) Mark 7:6-7 = Matt 15:7-9
(3) 1Clem 15:2
(1) GEger 3:5-6
/3:1/ They come to him and interrogate him as a way of putting him to the test.
/2/ They ask, "Teacher, Jesus, we know that you are [from God],
since the things you do put you above all the prophets.
/3/ Tell us, then, is it permissible to pay to rulers what is due them?
Should we pay them or not?"
/4/ Jesus knew what they were up to, and became indignant.
/5/ Then he said to them, "Why do you pay me lip service as a teacher,
but not [do] what I say? /6/ How accurately Isaiah prophesied about you
when he said,
'This people honors me with their lips,
but their heart stays far away from me;
their worship of me is empty,
[because they insist on teachings
that are human] commandments [...]' " [Complete Gospels]
(2) Mark 7:6-7 = Matt 15:7-9
/7:6/ He said to them, "Isaiah prophesied rightly about you hypocrites, as it is written, 'This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me; /7/ in vain do they worship me, teaching human precepts as doctrines.'
= Matt 15:7-9
/15:7/ You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied rightly about you when he said: /8/ 'This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me; /9/ in vain do they worship me, teaching human precepts as doctrines.'"
(3) 1Clem 15:2
Let us cleave, therefore, to those who cultivate peace with godliness, and not to those who hypocritically profess to desire it. For [the Scripture] saith in a certain place, "This people honoureth Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me." And again: "They bless with their mouth, but curse with their heart." And again it saith, "They loved Him with their mouth, and lied to Him with their tongue; but their heart was not right with Him, neither were they faithful in His covenant." "Let the deceitful lips become silent," [and "let the Lord destroy all the lying lips,] and the boastful tongue of those who have said, Let us magnify our tongue; our lips are our own; who is Lord over us? For the oppression of the poor, and for the sighing of the needy, will I now arise, saith the Lord: I will place him in safety; I will deal confidently with him." [ANF]
John Dominic Crossan
Item: 56
Stratum: I (30-60 CE)
Attestation: Triple
Historicity: -
David Flusser
While Flusser does not address this specific cluster, he does discuss Jesus' attitude to the Jewish law. Flusser [Jesus, 58-61] makes the point that the teaching attributed to Jesus is not "a supposed abrogation of Judaic law," but sits within the context of internal Jewish debates at the time.
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Color GEger 3:5-6 Mark 7:6-8 Matt 15:3-9 The commentary in The Five Gospels (p. 201) notes that the quest for "scriptural proofs" was a characteristic activity of the early Christian communities, and seems to have been less typical of Jesus himself. On the gray designation for Matthew's version, the commentary reads:
Because Matthew has omitted the explanatory remarks added by Mark, remarks that serve to heighten the controversial aspects of the debate, the Fellows of the Seminar gave the passage in Matthew a gray designation rather than a black, on the grounds that it may preserve distant echoes of a historical event.
Samuel T. Lachs
Lachs [Rabbinic Commentary on the New Testament, 247] simply notes the saying's dependence on the LXX of Isaiah 29:13.
The Lord said: Because these people draw near with their mouths and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and their worship of me is a human commandment learned by rote;
Luedemann [Jesus, 48] concludes:
The polemic against the Pharisees and scribes by means of a quotation from Isaiah and a conclusion (v. 8) is the basis of the tradition. But it has to be noted that the Isaiah quotation is not relevant to the controversy about the practice of eating with unclean hands (v. 5).