Matthew 15:13
New International Version
He replied, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots.

New Living Translation
Jesus replied, “Every plant not planted by my heavenly Father will be uprooted,

English Standard Version
He answered, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up.

Berean Standard Bible
But Jesus replied, “Every plant that My heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by its roots.

Berean Literal Bible
And answering He said, "Every plant that My Heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up.

King James Bible
But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.

New King James Version
But He answered and said, “Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted.

New American Standard Bible
But He answered and said, “Every plant which My heavenly Father did not plant will be uprooted.

NASB 1995
But He answered and said, “Every plant which My heavenly Father did not plant shall be uprooted.

NASB 1977
But He answered and said, “Every plant which My heavenly Father did not plant shall be rooted up.

Legacy Standard Bible
But He answered and said, “Every plant which My heavenly Father did not plant shall be uprooted.

Amplified Bible
He answered, “Every plant which My heavenly Father did not plant will be torn up by the roots.

Christian Standard Bible
He replied, “Every plant that my heavenly Father didn’t plant will be uprooted.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He replied, “Every plant that My heavenly Father didn’t plant will be uprooted.

American Standard Version
But he answered and said, Every plant which my heavenly Father planted not, shall be rooted up.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
But he answered and said to them, “Every plant that my Father who is in Heaven has not planted will be uprooted.”

Contemporary English Version
Jesus answered, "Every plant that my Father in heaven did not plant will be pulled up by the roots.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But he answering them, said: Every plant which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.

English Revised Version
But he answered and said, Every plant which my heavenly Father planted not, shall be rooted up.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He answered, "Any plant that my heavenly Father did not plant will be uprooted.

Good News Translation
"Every plant which my Father in heaven did not plant will be pulled up," answered Jesus.

International Standard Version
He replied, "Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant will be pulled up by the roots.

Literal Standard Version
And He answering said, “Every plant that My heavenly Father did not plant will be rooted up;

Majority Standard Bible
But Jesus replied, “Every plant that My heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by its roots.

New American Bible
He said in reply, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted.

NET Bible
And he replied, "Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant will be uprooted.

New Revised Standard Version
He answered, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted.

New Heart English Bible
But he answered, "Every plant which my heavenly Father did not plant will be uprooted.

Webster's Bible Translation
But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be extirpated.

Weymouth New Testament
"Every plant," He replied, "which my Heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up.

World English Bible
But he answered, “Every plant which my heavenly Father didn’t plant will be uprooted.

Young's Literal Translation
And he answering said, 'Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant shall be rooted up;

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Context
What Defiles a Man
12Then the disciples came to Him and said, “Are You aware that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this?” 13But Jesus replied, “Every plant that My heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by its roots. 14Disregard them! They are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”…

Cross References
Isaiah 60:21
Then all your people will be righteous; they will possess the land forever; they are the branch of My planting, the work of My hands, so that I may be glorified.

Isaiah 61:3
to console the mourners in Zion--to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.

Matthew 15:12
Then the disciples came to Him and said, "Are You aware that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this?"

John 15:1
"I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard.

John 15:2
He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even more fruitful.

1 Corinthians 3:9
For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building.

Jude 1:12
These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being uprooted.


Treasury of Scripture

But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father has not planted, shall be rooted up.

Every.

Matthew 13:40,41
As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world…

Psalm 92:13
Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.

Isaiah 60:21
Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.

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Matthew 15
1. Jesus reproves the Scribes and Pharisees
7. for transgressing God's commandments through their own traditions;
10. teaches how that which goes into the mouth does not defile a man.
21. He heals the daughter of the woman of Canaan,
29. and other great multitudes;
32. and with seven loaves and a few small fish feeds four thousand men














(13) Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted.--The disciples could hardly fail to connect the words with the parable which they had heard so lately. The system and the men that they had been taught to regard as pre-eminently religious were, after all, in their Master's judgment, as the tares and not as the wheat (Matthew 13:37-38). So far as they were a sect or party, His Father had not planted them. They, too, were left, according to the teaching of that parable, to grow until the harvest, but their end was sure--they should be "rooted out." The words which proclaim their doom were, however, intentionally general in their form. In that divine judgment which works through the world's history, foreshadowing the issues of the last great day, that doom is written on every system, party, sect which originates in man's zeal, in narrowness, in self-will. It has not been planted by the Father, and therefore it is doomed to perish.

Verse 13. - Every plant, etc. The answer of Christ signifies - Do not be alarmed by the displeasure of the Pharisees, and at my opposition to their teaching; the system which they support is ungodly and shall be soon destroyed. Christ, as often, puts the statement in a parabolic form, using two images, one derived from the vegetable kingdom in this verse, and one from human life in ver. 14. Plant (φυτεία); plantation. The act of planting, and then by metonymy the thing planted. It here signifies the sect and doctrine of the Pharisees, the persons themselves, and that which they taught. The comparison of men and trees, plant and doctrine, is a common biblical metaphor (comp. Psalm 1; Isaiah 5:7; Matthew 7:16-20; Luke 6:43, 44, etc.). The traditions of the rabbis were plants which my heavenly Father hath not planted. They were of human, not Divine, growth; and the men themselves, even though originally planted in holy soil, had degenerated, and become not only unfruitful, but pernicious. So the Lord speaks by Jeremiah (Jeremiah 2:21), "I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?" Shall be rooted up. Our Lord is not referring to the judgment of the last day (Matthew 3:10), nor to any forcible destruction effected by human agency; he means that the system must pass away entirely to make room for a better growth, even the gospel. The Jews would not see that the Law was a schoolmaster to bring men to Christ; they deemed that their ceremonies and rites were to be permanent and universal; and this, more than anything, impeded the reception of Christ's claims, and made men utterly averse from his teaching. It was in vain that Jesus proclaimed, "If ye believed Moses, ye would believe me; for he wrote of me" (John 5:46). The very Law, as handled and obscured by the Pharisees, was made an obstacle to the truth.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
But
δὲ (de)
Conjunction
Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc.

[Jesus] replied,
ἀποκριθεὶς (apokritheis)
Verb - Aorist Participle Passive - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 611: From apo and krino; to conclude for oneself, i.e. to respond; by Hebraism to begin to speak.

“Every
Πᾶσα (Pasa)
Adjective - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3956: All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole.

plant
φυτεία (phyteia)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 5451: A plant, that which is planted. From phuteuo; trans-planting, i.e. a shrub or vegetable.

that
ἣν (hēn)
Personal / Relative Pronoun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3739: Who, which, what, that.

My
μου (mou)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

Heavenly
οὐράνιος (ouranios)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3770: In heaven, belonging to heaven, heavenly, from heaven. From ouranos; celestial, i.e. Belonging to or coming from the sky.

Father
Πατήρ (Patēr)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3962: Father, (Heavenly) Father, ancestor, elder, senior. Apparently a primary word; a 'father'.

has not planted
ἐφύτευσεν (ephyteusen)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 5452: To plant, set. From a derivative of phuo; to set out in the earth, i.e. Implant; figuratively, to instil doctrine.

will be pulled up by its roots.
ἐκριζωθήσεται (ekrizōthēsetai)
Verb - Future Indicative Passive - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1610: To root out, pluck up by the roots. From ek and rhizoo; to uproot.


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