making the word of God of no effect through your tradition, which you have delivered. And you do many similar things.”
To the law and to the testimony; if they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
Now if he begets a son who sees all his father’s sins which he has done, and considering does not do likewise:
I have written for him the great things of My law, but they were regarded as a strange thing.
will be free from honoring his father or his mother.’ So you have made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition.
Then you no longer let him do anything for his father or his mother,
When He had called all the people to Him, He said, “Listen to Me, every one of you, and understand:
For the Pharisees and all the Jews, unless they wash their hands ritually, do not eat, keeping the tradition of the elders.
So the Pharisees and scribes asked Him, “Why do Your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands?”
And He said to them, “You full well reject the commandment of God so that you may keep your own tradition.
and progressed in Judaism above many of my equals in my own heritage, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
envy, murders, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you, as I previously warned you, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
not paying attention to Jewish myths and commandments of men who reject the truth.