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For example, God said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’[a] and, ‘Whoever speaks evil of his father or mother should be put to death.’[b] But you say that if someone tells his father or mother, ‘Whatever help you might have received from me has been dedicated as a gift to God,’[c] that man does not need to honor his father or his mother.[d] And so you set aside the word of God for the sake of your tradition.

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  1. Matthew 15:4 Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16
  2. Matthew 15:4 Exodus 21:17
  3. Matthew 15:5 See Mark 7:11.
  4. Matthew 15:6 A few witnesses to the text omit or his mother.