Matthew 15:2
Douay-Rheims
Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the ancients? For they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
John Chrysostom
But the disciples now did not eat with washen hands, because they already despised all things superfluous, and attended only to such as were necessary; thus they accepted neither washing nor not washing as a rule, but did either as it happened. For how should they who even neglected the food that was necessary for them, have any care about this rite?
Source details
A.D. 407 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 15:1-6
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.