*For you set aside the mitzvah of God, and hold tightly to the tradition of men--the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other such things.*
When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?
The Perushim and the scribes asked him, *Why don't your talmidim walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?*
I advanced in traditional Judaism beyond many of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.