The Phariseesand the scribesaskedHim, "Whydo Your disciplesnot walkaccordingto the traditionof the elders,but eattheir breadwith impurehands?"
"Whydo Your disciplesbreak the traditionof the elders?For they do not washtheir handswhenthey eatbread."
[thus] invalidatingthe wordof Godby your traditionwhichyou have handed down;and you domany thingssuchas that."
"Neglectingthe commandmentof God,you holdto the traditionof men."
He was alsosayingto them, "You are expertsat setting asidethe commandmentof Godin orderto keepyour tradition.
and they have been toldaboutyou, that you are teachingallthe Jewswho are amongthe Gentilesto forsakeMoses,tellingthem not to circumcisetheir childrennorto walkaccording to the customs.
takethem and purifyyourself alongwith them, and pay their expensessothat they may shavetheir heads;and allwill knowthat there is nothingto the things whichthey have been toldaboutyou, but that you yourselfalsowalk orderly,keepingthe Law.
and the fatherof circumcisionto thosewho not onlyare of the circumcision,but who alsofollowin the stepsof the faithof our fatherAbrahamwhich he had while uncircumcised.
and I was advancingin Judaismbeyondmanyof my contemporariesamongmy countrymen,beingmore extremelyzealousfor my ancestraltraditions.
For we hearthat someamongyou are leadingan undisciplinedlife,doingnoworkat all,but acting like busybodies.
Nowwe commandyou, brethren,in the nameof our LordJesusChrist,that you keep awayfrom everybrotherwho leadsan unrulylifeand not accordingto the traditionwhichyou receivedfrom us.
