For having set aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men: washings of pots and cups and many other such like things ye do.
When ye come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand--to trample my courts?
Then the Pharisees and the scholars demand of him, Why do thy disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?
And I advanced in Judaism beyond many contemporaries among my race, being a more extreme zealot of my paternal traditions.