[thus] invalidatingthe wordof Godby your traditionwhichyou have handed down;and you domany thingssuchas that."
He was alsosayingto them, "You are expertsat setting asidethe commandmentof Godin orderto keepyour tradition.
not paying attentionto Jewishmythsand commandmentsof menwho turn awayfrom the truth.
Though I wrotefor him tenthousand[precepts] of My law,They are regardedas a strangething.
To the lawand to the testimony!Ifthey do not speakaccording to thisword,it is becausethey havenodawn.
(For the Phariseesand allthe Jewsdo not eatunlessthey carefullywashtheir hands,[thus] observingthe traditionsof the elders;
he is not to honorhis fatherorhis mother.' And [by this] you invalidatedthe wordof Godfor the sakeof your tradition.
"Now behold,he hasa sonwho has observedallhis father'ssinswhichhe committed,and observingdoes not dolikewise.
envying,drunkenness,carousing,and things likethese,of whichI forewarnyou, justas I have forewarnedyou, that thosewho practicesuch thingswill not inheritthe kingdomof God.
The Phariseesand the scribesaskedHim, "Whydo Your disciplesnot walkaccordingto the traditionof the elders,but eattheir breadwith impurehands?"
you no longerpermithim to doanythingfor [his] fatheror[his] mother;
After He calledthe crowdto Him again,He [began] sayingto them, "Listento Me, allof you, and understand:
and I was advancingin Judaismbeyondmanyof my contemporariesamongmy countrymen,beingmore extremelyzealousfor my ancestraltraditions.
