EVERY STATEMENT OF CHRIST

ON THE LAW AND TRADITION

Matthew

5:17-20 –

17 “Don’t think that I have come to abolish the Torah or the Prophets. I have come not to abolish but to complete. 

18 Yes indeed! I tell you that until heaven and earth pass away, not so much as a yud or a stroke will pass from the Torah — not until everything that must happen has happened. 

19 So whoever disobeys the least of these mitzvot and teaches others to do so will be called the least in the Kingdom of Heaven. But whoever obeys them and so teaches will be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven. 

20 For I tell you that unless your righteousness is far greater than that of the Torah-teachers andP’rushim, you will certainly not enter the Kingdom of Heaven!

8:4 –

4 Then Yeshua said to him, “See that you tell no one; but as a testimony to the people, go and let the cohen examine you, and offer the sacrifice that Moshe commanded.”

11:11-13 –

11 Yes! I tell you that among those born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than Yochanan the Immerser! Yet the one who is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he! 

12 From the time of Yochanan the Immerser until now, the Kingdom of Heaven has been suffering violence; yes, violent ones are trying to snatch it away. 

13 For all the prophets and the Torah prophesied until Yochanan.

12:1-5 –  

1 One Shabbat during that time, Yeshua was walking through some wheat fields. His talmidim were hungry, so they began picking heads of grain and eating them.

2 On seeing this, the P’rushim said to him, “Look! Your talmidim are violatingShabbat!” 

3 But he said to them, “Haven’t you ever read what David did when he and those with him were hungry? 

4 He entered the House of God and ate the Bread of the Presence!” — which was prohibited, both to him and to his companions; it is permitted only to the cohanim. 

5 “Or haven’t you read in the Torah that on Shabbat the cohanim profane Shabbat and yet are blameless?

12:9-12 –

9 Going on from that place, he went into their synagogue. 

10 A man there had a shriveled hand. Looking for a reason to accuse him of something, they asked him, “Is healing permitted on Shabbat?” 

11 But he answered, “If you have a sheep that falls in a pit on Shabbat, which of you won’t take hold of it and lift it out? 

12 How much more valuable is a man than a sheep! Therefore, what is permitted on Shabbat is to do good.”

13:41-43 –

41 The Son of Man will send forth his angels, and they will collect out of his Kingdom all the things that cause people to sin and all the people who are far from Torah; 

42 and they will throw them into the fiery furnace, where people will wail and grind their teeth. 

43 Then the righteous will shine forth like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. Whoever has ears, let him hear!

15:1-5 –

1 Then some P’rushim and Torah-teachers from Yerushalayim came to Yeshua and asked him, 

2 “Why is it that your talmidim break the Tradition of the Elders? They don’t do n’tilat-yadayim before they eat!” 

3 He answered, “Indeed, why do you break the command of God by your tradition? 

4 For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother,’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’ 

5 But you say, ‘If anyone says to his father or mother, “I have promised to give to God what I might have used to help you,”

15:7-9 –

7 You hypocrites! Yesha‘yahu was right when he prophesied about you,

8 ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far away from me.

9 Their worship of me is useless, because they teach man-made rules as if they were doctrines.'

19:16-21 –

16 A man approached Yeshua and said, “Rabbi, what good thing should I do in order to have eternal life?” He said to him, 

17 “Why are you asking me about good? There is One who is good! But if you want to obtain eternal life, observe the mitzvot.”

18 The man asked him, “Which ones?” and Yeshua said, “Don’t murder, don’t commit adultery, don’t steal, don’t give false testimony 

19 honor father and mother and love your neighbor as yourself.” 

20 The young man said to him, “I have kept all these; where do I still fall short?” 

21 Yeshua said to him, “If you are serious about reaching the goal, go and sell your possessions, give to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven. Then come, follow me!”

22:33-40 –

33 When the crowds heard how he taught, they were astounded; 

34 but when theP’rushim learned that he had silenced the Tz’dukim, they got together, 

35 and one of them who was a Torah expert asked a sh’eilah to trap him: 

36 “Rabbi, which of the mitzvot in the Torah is the most important?” 

37 He told him, “‘You are to loveAdonai your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.’ 

38 This is the greatest and most important mitzvah. 

39 And a second is similar to it, ‘You are to love your neighbor as yourself.’ 

40 All of the Torah and the Prophets are dependent on these two mitzvot.”

23:23-24 –

23 “Woe to you hypocritical Torah-teachers and P’rushim! You pay your tithes of mint, dill and cumin; but you have neglected the weightier matters of the Torah — justice, mercy, trust. These are the things you should have attended to — without neglecting the others! 

24 Blind guides! — straining out a gnat, meanwhile swallowing a camel!

23:27-28 –

27 “Woe to you hypocritical Torah-teachers and P’rushim! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look fine on the outside but inside are full of dead people’s bones and all kinds of rottenness. 

28 Likewise, you appear to people from the outside to be good and honest, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and far from Torah.

Mark

1:40-44 –

40 A man afflicted with tzara‘at came to Yeshua and begged him on his knees, “If you are willing, you can make me clean.” 

41 Moved with pity, Yeshua reached out his hand, touched him and said to him, “I am willing! Be cleansed!”

42 Instantly thetzara‘at left him, and he was cleansed. 

43 Yeshua sent him away with this stern warning: 

44 “See to it that you tell no one; instead, as a testimony to the people, go and let the cohen examine you, and offer for your cleansing what Moshe commanded.”

2:23-28 –

23 One Shabbat Yeshua was passing through some wheat fields; and as they went along, his talmidim began picking heads of grain. 

24 The P’rushim said to him, “Look! Why are they violating Shabbat?” 

25 He said to them, “Haven’t you ever read what David did when he and those with him were hungry and needed food? 

26 He entered the House of God when Evyatar was cohen gadol and ate the Bread of the Presence,” — which is forbidden for anyone to eat but the cohanim — “and even gave some to his companions.” 

27 Then he said to them, “Shabbat was made for mankind, not mankind for Shabbat; 

28 So the Son of Man is Lord even of Shabbat.”

3:1-4 –

1 Yeshua went again into a synagogue, and a man with a shriveled hand was there. 

2 Looking for a reason to accuse him of something, people watched him carefully to see if he would heal him on Shabbat. 

3 He said to the man with the shriveled hand, “Come up where we can see you!” 

4 Then to them he said, “What is permitted on Shabbat? Doing good or doing evil? Saving life or killing?” But they said nothing.

7:1-13 –

1 The P’rushim and some of the Torah-teachers who had come from Yerushalayim gathered together with Yeshua 

2 and saw that some of his talmidim ate with ritually unclean hands, that is, without doing n’tilat-yadayim.

3 (For the P’rushim, and indeed all the Judeans, holding fast to the Tradition of the Elders, do not eat unless they have given their hands a ceremonial washing. 

4 Also, when they come from the marketplace they do not eat unless they have rinsed their hands up to the wrist; and they adhere to many other traditions, such as washing cups, pots and bronze vessels.)

5 The P’rushim and the Torah-teachers asked him, “Why don’t your talmidim live in accordance with the Tradition of the Elders, but instead eat with ritually unclean hands?” 

6 Yeshua answered them, “Yesha‘yahu was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites — as it is written,

‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far away from me.
7 Their worship of me is useless, because they teach man-made rules as if they were doctrines.’

8 “You depart from God’s command and hold onto human tradition. 

9 Indeed,” he said to them, “you have made a fine art of departing from God’s command in order to keep your tradition! 

10 For Moshe said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’ 

11 But you say, ‘If someone says to his father or mother, “I have promised as a korban” ’ ” (that is, as a gift to God) “ ‘ “what I might have used to help you,” ’ 

12 then you no longer let him do anything for his father or mother. 

13 Thus, with your tradition which you had handed down to you, you nullify the Word of God! And you do other things like this.”

12:28-31 –

28 “Some say you are Yochanan the Immerser,” they told him, “others say Eliyahu, and still others, one of the prophets.” 

29 “But you,” he asked, “who do you say I am?” Kefa answered, “You are the Mashiach.” 

30 Then Yeshua warned them not to tell anyone about him.

 31 He began teaching them that the Son of Man had to endure much suffering and be rejected by the elders, the head cohanim and theTorah-teachers; and that he had to be put to death; but that after three days, he had to rise again.

Luke

5:12-14 –

12 Once, when Yeshua was in one of the towns, there came a man completely covered with tzara‘at. On seeing Yeshua, he fell on his face and begged him, “Sir, if you are willing, you can make me clean.” 

13 Yeshua reached out his hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing! Be cleansed!” Immediately the tzara‘at left him.

14 Then Yeshua warned him not to tell anyone. “Instead, as a testimony to the people, go straight to the cohen and make an offering for your cleansing, as Moshe commanded.”

6:1-9 –

1 One Shabbat, while Yeshua was passing through some wheat fields, his talmidimbegan plucking the heads of grain, rubbing them between their hands and eating the seeds. 

2 Some of the P’rushim said, “Why are you violating Shabbat?” 

3 Yeshua answered them, “Haven’t you ever read what David did when he and his companions were hungry? 

4 He entered the House of God and took and ate the Bread of the Presence” — which no one is permitted to eat but the cohanim. 

5 “The Son of Man,” he concluded, “is Lord of Shabbat.”

6 On another Shabbat, when Yeshua had gone into the synagogue and was teaching, a man was there who had a shriveled hand. 

7 The Torah-teachers and P’rushim watched Yeshua carefully to see if he would heal on Shabbat, so that they could accuse him of something. 

8 But he knew what they were thinking and said to the man with the shriveled hand, “Come up and stand where we can see you!” He got up and stood there.

 9 Then Yeshua said to them, “I ask you now: what is permitted on Shabbat? Doing good or doing evil? Saving life or destroying it?”

10:25-28 –

25 An expert in Torah stood up to try and trap him by asking, “Rabbi, what should I do to obtain eternal life?” 

26 But Yeshua said to him, “What is written in the Torah? How do you read it?” 

27 He answered, “You are to love Adonai your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength and with all your understanding; and your neighbor as yourself.” 

28 “That’s the right answer,” Yeshua said. “Do this, and you will have life.”

14:1-6 –

1 One Shabbat Yeshua went to eat in the home of one of the leading P’rushim, and they were watching him closely. 

2 In front of him was a man whose body was swollen with fluid. 

3 Yeshua spoke up and asked the Torah experts and P’rushim, “Does the Torah allow healing on Shabbat or not?” 

4 But they said nothing. So, taking hold of him, he healed him and sent him away. 

5 To them he said, “Which of you, if a son or an ox falls into a well, will hesitate to haul him out on Shabbat?”

6 And to these things they could give no answer.

16:14-17 –

14 The P’rushim heard all this, and since they were money-lovers, they ridiculed him. 

15 He said to them, “You people make yourselves look righteous to others, but God knows your hearts; what people regard highly is an abomination before God!

16 Up to the time of Yochanan there were the Torah and the Prophets. Since then the Good News of the Kingdom of God has been proclaimed, and everyone is pushing to get in. 

17 But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one stroke of a letter in the Torah to become void.

18:18-22 –

18 One of the leaders asked him, “Good rabbi, what should I do to obtain eternal life?” 

19 Yeshua said to him, “Why are you calling me good? No one is good but God! 

20 You know the mitzvot — ‘Don’t commit adultery, don’t murder, don’t steal, don’t give false testimony, honor your father and mother, . . .’” 

21 He replied, “I have kept all these since I was a boy.”

22 On hearing this Yeshua said to him, “There is one thing you still lack. Sell whatever you have, distribute the proceeds to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven. Then come, follow me!”

24:44-47 –

44 Yeshua said to them, “This is what I meant when I was still with you and told you that everything written about me in the Torah of Moshe, the Prophets and the Psalms had to be fulfilled.” 

45 Then he opened their minds, so that they could understand the Tanakh, 

46 telling them, “Here is what it says: the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day; 

47 and in his name repentance leading to forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed to people from all nations, starting with Yerushalayim.

John

4:22 –

22 You people don’t know what you are worshipping; we worship what we do know, because salvation comes from the Jews.

7:14-24 –

14 Not until the festival was half over did Yeshua go up to the Temple courts and begin to teach. 

15 The Judeans were surprised: “How does this man know so much without having studied?” they asked. 

16 So Yeshua gave them an answer: “My teaching is not my own, it comes from the One who sent me. 

17 If anyone wants to do his will, he will know whether my teaching is from God or I speak on my own.

18 A person who speaks on his own is trying to win praise for himself; but a person who tries to win praise for the one who sent him is honest, there is nothing false about him. 

19 Didn’t Moshe give you the Torah? Yet not one of you obeys the Torah! Why are you out to kill me?” 

20 “You have a demon!” the crowd answered. “Who’s out to kill you?” 

21 Yeshua answered them, “I did one thing; and because of this, all of you are amazed. 

22 Moshe gave you b’rit-milah — not that it came from Moshe but from the Patriarchs — and you do a boy’s b’rit-milah on Shabbat. 

23 If a boy is circumcised on Shabbat so that the Torah of Moshe will not be broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man’s whole body well on Shabbat? 

24 Stop judging by surface appearances, and judge the right way!”

8:15-19 –

15 You judge by merely human standards. As for me, I pass judgment on no one;

16 but if I were indeed to pass judgment, my judgment would be valid; because it is not I alone who judge, but I and the One who sent me. 

17 And even in your Torah it is written that the testimony of two people is valid. 

18 I myself testify on my own behalf, and so does the Father who sent me.” 19 They said to him, “Where is this ‘father’ of yours?” Yeshua answered, “You know neither me nor my Father; if you knew me, you would know my Father too.”

12:44-50 –

44 Yeshua declared publicly, “Those who put their trust in me are trusting not merely in me, but in the One who sent me. 

45 Also those who see me see the One who sent me. 

46 I have come as a light into the world, so that everyone who trusts in me might not remain in the dark. 

47 If anyone hears what I am saying and does not observe it, I don’t judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world. 

48 Those who reject me and don’t accept what I say have a judge — the word which I have spoken will judge them on the Last Day. 

49 For I have not spoken on my own initiative, but the Father who sent me has given me a command, namely, what to say and how to say it. 

50 And I know that his command is eternal life. So what I say is simply what the Father has told me to say.”

14:15 –

15 “If you love me, you will keep my commands;

14:21 –

21 Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me, and the one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and reveal myself to him.”

14:23-24 –

23 Yeshua answered him, “If someone loves me, he will keep my word; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. 24 Someone who doesn’t love me doesn’t keep my words — and the word you are hearing is not my own but that of the Father who sent me.

15:9-10 –

9 “Just as my Father has loved me, I too have loved you; so stay in my love. 

10 If you keep my commands, you will stay in my love — just as I have kept my Father’s commands and stay in his love.

16:8-11 –

8 “When he comes, he will show that the world is wrong about sin, about righteousness and about judgment —

9 about sin, in that people don’t put their trust in me; 

10 about righteousness, in that I am going to the Father and you will no longer see me; 

11 about judgment, in that the ruler of this world has been judged.