For laying aside the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things you do.
When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not your disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands?
And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in my own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.