which they have received traditionally and cling to,
such as the rinsing of cups and pots and of bronze utensils,
and the washing of beds.)
007:005 So the Pharisees and Scribes put the question to Him: "Why do
your disciples transgress the traditions of the Elders,
and eat their food with unclean hands?"
007:006 "Rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites," He replied;
"as it is written, "`This People honour Me with their lips,
while their hearts are far away from Me:
007:007 But idle is their devotion while they lay down precepts
which are mere human rules.'
007:008 "You neglect God's Commandment: you hold fast to men's traditions."
007:009 "Praiseworthy indeed!" He added, "to set at nought
God's Commandment in order to observe your own traditions!
007:010 For Moses said, `Honour thy father and thy mother' and again,
`He who curses father or mother, let him die the death.'
007:011 But *you* say, `If a man says to his father or mother, It is
a Korban (that is, a thing devoted to God), whatever it is,
which otherwise you would have received from me--'
007:012 And so you no longer allow him to do anything for his
father or mother,
007:013 thus nullifying God's precept by your tradition which you
have handed down. And many things of that kind you do."
007:014 Then Jesus called the people to Him again. "Listen to me,
all of you," He said, "and understand.
007:015 There is nothing outside a man which entering him can make
him unclean; but it is the things which come out of a man
that make him unclean."
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007:017 After He had left the crowd and gone indoors, His disciples