For laying aside the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men—the washing of pitchers and cups, and many other such things you do.”
When you come to appear before Me, who has required this at your hand, to trample My courts?
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 progressed in Judaism above many of my equals in my own heritage, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.