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I'm Taylor.

And I'm Tyler.

This is Scripture Central's Come Follow Me Insights. This week, Matthew 15 through 17 and Mark chapter 7 through 9.

In this first episode, we're going to cover Matthew 15 and 16 and mix in elements from

Mark as it applies.

And then our second episode will cover Matthew 17 and do the same thing mixed in with some

scriptures from Mark. So we jump in today in chapter 15, keeping in mind this is right

after the two incredible miracles in Matthew 14 of Feeding of the 5,000 and walking on the

water. And we're introduced Feeding of the 5,000 and walking on the water.

And we're introduced right out of the gates here in verse 1 to some scribes and Pharisees,

which were of Jerusalem.

So we've got a group of leaders of the Jewish people who have come north to the Galilee from Jerusalem, and they're on the lookout. They are calling Jesus out because of his disciples. Have you

noticed this pattern? They're rarely coming to Jesus telling him what he's doing wrong.

It's usually you're taking responsibility for this group of people who are following you,

and they're not following you appropriately because they're breaking our tradition, the law of

Moses as we interpret it. And in this case, you'll see the wording here,

why do thy disciples transgress the

tradition of the elders? Did you see that their question wasn't, why do you and your apostles

break the law of Moses? They didn't word it that way. The accusation is, you're letting your

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