For leaving the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men, the washing of pots and of cups: and many other things you do like to these.
When you came to appear before me, who required these things at your hands, that you should walk in my courts?
And the Pharisees and scribes asked him: Why do not thy disciples walk according to the tradition of the ancients, but they eat bread with common hands?
And I made progress in the Jews' religion above many of my equals in my own nation, being more abundantly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.