Matthew 15:13 is a verse in the fifteenth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. Content In the original Greek according to Westcott-Hort for this verse is: Ὁ δὲ ἀποκριθεὶς εἶπε, Πᾶσα φυτεία, ἣν οὐκ ἐφύτευσεν ὁ πατήρ μου ὁ οὐράνιος, ἐκριζωθήσεται. In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up. The New International Version translates the passage as: He replied, "Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots. Analysis Some people understand the word, "plant," to mean doctrine, so that every doctrine not proceeding from God, will come to nothing. Gamaliel stated this in Acts 5:38, "If this counsel be from God ..." So Christ implies that the doctrine of the Pharisees, is purely of human invention, and along with their sect will come to an end. By doing this Jesus quiets the fear of the disciples related in the previous verse. Some other people understand the word, "plant," to be of men themselves, that is, the Scribes and Pharisees. People are often called the planting of God. Every person is said to be planted by God, in the field of this world, but by the envy of the devil, the first people were corrupted and so they must be planted afresh and ingrafted on Christ, the tree of life. (see Isa. 60:21; Matt 3:10) Commentary from the Church Fathers Chrysostom: "Christ does not remove the stumbling-block out of the way of the Pharisees, but rather rebukes them; as it follows, But he answered and said, Every plant which my heavenly Father has not planted shall be rooted up. This Manichæus affirmed was spoken of the Law, but what has been already said is a sufficient refutation of this. For if He had said this of the Law, how would He have above contended for the Law, saying, Why transgress ye the commandment of God through your tradition? Or would He have cited the Prophet? Or how, if God said, Honour thy father and thy mother, is not this, being spoken in the Law, a plant of God?" Hilary of Poitiers: "What He intends then by a plant not planted of His Father, is that tradition of men under cover of which the Law had been transgressed, this