For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands often, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.
Making the word of God of no effect through your tradition, which you have delivered: and many such things do you.
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 when the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first washed before dinner.
And there were set there six water pots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing twenty or thirty gallons each.
And advanced in the Jews' religion above many of my equals in my own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
Since you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain manner of life received by tradition from your fathers;