For the Pharisees and all the Jews, unless they wash their hands ritually, do not eat, keeping the tradition of the elders.
making the word of God of no effect through your tradition, which you have delivered. And you do many similar things.”
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?”
When the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that He had not first washed before dinner.
Six water pots made of stone were sitting there, used for ceremonial cleansing by the Jews, containing twenty to thirty gallons each.
and progressed in Judaism above many of my equals in my own heritage, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
Beware lest anyone captivate you through philosophy and vain deceit, in the tradition of men and the elementary principles of the world, and not after Christ.
For you know that you were not redeemed from your vain way of life inherited from your fathers with perishable things, like silver or gold,