For laying aside the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men, the dippings of pots 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?
Then the Pharisees and scribes asked Him, Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat loaves with unwashed hands?
And I progressed in Judaism beyond many contemporaries in my race, being much more a zealot of the traditions of my fathers.