And when they come back from the market, unless they ritually wash their hands, they do not eat. And they have many other traditions they continue to observe, like ritually baptizing cups, pitchers, copper pots and reclining couches.
Then the Pharisees and Scribes asked him, Why do your disciples not live according to the traditions of the elders, but instead, eat bread with unwashed hands?
He said to them, Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written: This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. They worship me in vain, teaching doctrines that are nothing but the precepts of men. Because you lay aside the commands of God and instead observe the traditions of men - like baptizing pitchers and cups, and many other kinds of things you do.
And he said to them, You are experts at rejecting the commands of God in order to maintain your own traditions. For Moses said, Honor your father and your mother; and, Whoever insults his father or mother let him be put to death! But you say, If a man ever says to his father or mother, It is Corban, meaning: the thing you desire has been dedicated by me to God, and you benefited from that gift. And you allow him to do no more for his father or his mother, In this way you erase God’s commands with your own traditions. And you do many things like this."
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