For, forsaking the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men: immersings of utensils and cups, and many other such like things you do.
When you come to see My face, who has required this at your hand, to trample My courts?
Then the Pharisees and scribes questioned Him, Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands?
And I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my own age; in my race being much more a zealot of the ancestral traditions of my fathers.